First, we flew to New Zealand. This was a lot more complicated than planned, and involved an accidental trip to Australia. I'll post a full account of that process later on, but for now, have a map.

Then we drove around New Zealand on a road trip organized by
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And a map key for those notes:

Then we flew home again. That went much better, other than my nasty cold.

So much to tell, so many pictures to show. I'll be blogging this over the next few weeks, along with lots and lots of photos.
Images taken from Google Maps and hand-modified.