Webby
Mon 19 Mar 2007
Today I sold my car to a very dear 85 year old man and now back in the hands of public transport. I sold my little car for $250 which is just under half of what I paid so it proved a good investment. It was certainly cheaper than renting or buses!
So now I am on my way home via Auckland, Sydney and Hong Kong with some bits in between to fill. One of the biggest expenses of being a Working Nomad is travel so I am always keen to keep things down!
So using a combination of travel options I am able to fly to Auckland for less than NZ$ 100 from Christchurch, my flight to Sydney was just over NZ$ 160 and I have managed to book a first class train seat from Sydney to Port Macquire for a mere AU$ 60 which in incredible for such a long journey!
I was under the impression that train journeys in Australia were expensive but not so on this route. I am meeting one of my sisters and my Mother in Port Macquire as they are over for a couple of weeks. We are staying in a rented house that will be a nice change from dorms!
Yea I have been in dorms now over three months and I am looking forward to having my own space again. You kind of get used to dorms after a while but I am back in a hotel now and enjoying such delights of not having to creep around quietly at night and climbing into upper bunks!
March 20th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
When I did my South Pacific, NZ, OZ trip, I was in dorms from the end of October until the end of May. Oh, how I loved my room in Ubud! Paradise! So I know just how you feel.
March 21st, 2007 at 3:05 pm
That is one thing I like about SE-Asia, you can always get a cheap room. I don’t know how you have stayed in a dorm for so long. I would have thought you would have found a room in a shared house or apartment by now?
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:29 am
Yeh bring back Asia! No Dorms! Yeh they’re good sometimes, but hey ho…..but I guess I can’t complain, I’ve just been in my hostels hot tub in Picton, NZ
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:18 pm
NZ has the best hostels, on average, that I have ever seen. There are some cool ones in OZ, too, like the IYH one up in the Daintree, in the middle of the jungle. There used to be a poster of it, the green lawn in the middle of the jungle, the pool, the pony.