But I won't have to if the hitchiking keeps going the way it has. We left Wanganui around 10 in the morning and walked a couple kilometres from the hostel to get on the highway out of town and put our thumbs out. After only about 20 minutes of walking trying to get a ride a guy about our age pulled over and took us the 40 minutes to the highway towards Wellington. We walked through the small towns little flea market, were given some free apple slices from a farmer because we apparently looked like we "need sustenance" and then walked another ten minutes down the road. The next car that pulled over had two girls that were returning home to Wellington after the weekend and offered to take us all the way there. They told us all about what to do in the city and actually apologized for not being able to give us a free place to stay for the two nights we were going to be in town. We assured them that the drive with our unique aromas was more then enough.
Upon arriving in Wellington we immediately did laundry, a much needed effort and then started to explore the city. Wellington reminds me a lot of Ottawa and is my favourite NZ city I've seen so far. There are a couple pedestrian streets with little independent shops and bookstores and a great artsy/music vibe all over the city.
Last night Mark and I entered a pub trivia contest at the hostel bar. The first twenty questions all related to New Zealand and the second twenty were random trivia the host found on google. We were thoroughly humbled in the first section and did Ok in the second although there were some questiosn we were stumped with (apparently Betty is not the name of one of the Kardashian sisters).
Tomorrow morning we catch the ferry to south island and will start hitching towards the Abel Tasman track, a 3-4 day Great walk that is mostly along the beach.
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