I’m a planner.
But, usually my planning tends to stress me out because I get worked up about every little detail.
My husband has taught me that not all things need to be stressed about nor planned to the minute. (Well, it’s something I’m working on).
A week before our honeymoon to New Zealand, we still hadn’t planned out the second half of our travels. So on Tuesday night, we hunkered down and searched for the remaining places to stay, and the route we should visit cities. I also dusted off the Lonely Planet book we had bought several months ago and did more research on exactly what else we wanted to do and see.
We start and end the trip in Auckland but are also driving down to the South Island and back — all in about 2.5 weeks. The South Island portion of the trip was what we needed to iron out.
As we talked through things looking at our map of the country, I paused for a moment and asked “Are we trying to see like all of Oregon and California in a week??”
It was sort of meant as a rhetorical question but Bryce responded that we were trying to fit a lot in during a short period of time. (Now I laugh to think that originally I wanted to go to Australia in the same trip as well! Ha!)
Are we crazy that we won’t be spending more than 2 nights in the same city or town? Are we doing too much? Will there be too much driving?
Maybe.
But, it is our honeymoon. So, we’ll do what we want!
[PS – By the time you’re reading this, we’ll be in the air on our way to Auckland. Or, we will already be in New Zealand.]
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