The last eleven days we drove a car from Queenstown, New Zealand, to Auckland, New Zealand. IT was an unbelievably crazy and fun and exhausting and beautiful trip, of which we only have time for the highlights…

Milford Sound–at first you’re expecting a little more… number one travel destination in the world, and this is it? But as you sit back on the boat and let it sink into you… the silence, the impressive mountains, the raging waterfalls, the black water, no sign of human life, you feel so humbled, like you are truly sitting at the feet of God. The mountains on every sight of the sound (which is actually a fjord… fjord, carved out by glaciar, sound, by a river… it was misnamed by the first explorers) are so steep there is literally no way to approach it by foot or to carve out so much as a lookout point. The only flat place is the tiny little “town” of Milford which, until recently, didn’t even have electricity. They have to create their own using hydroelectric power and the waterfalls. (oh, and the town is just one lodge and a ferry terminal). To get to it, you have to drive through a 1.5km tunnel–Humboldt tunnel–that took THIRTY YEARS to carve out. No joke. It’s kind of like God decided He wanted to create something unbelievably beautiful and protect it from all human intervention. You can look, guys, but you just can’t touch, no matter how hard you try. It was majestic, to say the least.

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