I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 641. Today the amateur traveler talks about hikes,

waterfalls and fjords. Swimming with dolphins,

RV's and Lord of the Rings as we go to New Zealand.

I know that I should be heading home,

but maybe not, maybe not today.

Welcome to the Amateur Traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about New Zealand.

I'd like to welcome to the show Hanson Cheng who's come to talk to us about New Zealand.

Hanson's best way to reach him is going to be on Instagram as Hanson Cheng with

two geez. Hanson welcome to the show. Thank you for having me Chris. And from your

Instagram we're going to see your stories and all sorts of other things like

your videos. But you've come to talk to us about New Zealand. You have been in

New Zealand recently. Last February I was there for three months and it was

somewhat of an unplanned trip. I basically just bought a one-way ticket to New Zealand.

I didn't have any real concrete plans. I just knew I wanted to live out of a van in New Zealand and let the

trip happen organically and I wasn't sure if I was going to be there for a few weeks to three months and it ended up being three months which was an amazing experience.

And just to clarify, unplanned trip, you didn't like accidentally end up in New Zealand. It's just that when you got there you'd had no particular plans.

I was actually meeting my friend there for a wedding. It was an inadvertent

invitation to a wedding which I don't think they thought I was going to accept and I was like yeah I don't know anything about New Zealand.

I remember the bride was pretty shocked seeing me there because she was like what you, you're, why are you here?

And it was kind of a last minute recovery where they're like,

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