To be honest, although we spent 3 nights in Boston we saw very little. Actually we saw the hotel room and the view from it, MIT at night, Harvard at night, a supermarket and the airport. Our body clocks were completely out-of-sync and we were getting up at 3pm, getting an hour of daylight and fallign asleep around 5am. Of all the places we went on our trip, Boston was the least interesting and

We headed straight to Auckland from Hamilton early in the morning partly to avoid traffic but mostly because we wanted to drop of the rattling Daewoo before something actually fell off it. And we had to transfer all our gear which had filled the car for the last month into our room, and eventually our backpacks. Frankly we had no idea what we should be doing in Auckland other than packing for

Going to the Cormandel Peninsula was recommended to us because of Hot Water Beach, where at low tide you dig into the sand a little hole for yourself, so you can sit in the hot water and relax. Supposed to be nice. HOwever we didn't have enough time in Coromandel and never made it here. We stayed in a lovely hostel in Whitianga, which faces out onto a beautiful beach. We went bone carving,

There isn't much to say here. Ohakune is a quiet little town and the YHA is a nice hostel with a home entertainment centre. Tired from all the travelling we decided spend the two days just chilling out and relaxing. Translation: we did nothing. Well on the second night we watched LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring, kind of as revision before Return of the King. [As an aside, there was some LOTR