Got a Flickr Pro Account

Musing, New Zealand, Travel July 19th, 2006

I decided to move my entire photos archive to Flickr so I got a pro account account and started uploading.
After almost 3 days of continuous uploading I’ve got most of my stuff, including all the photos from my trip to New Zeland up there so check it out

Back Home…

New Zealand, Travel March 26th, 2006

Woke up this morning and I didn’t find myself sharing a room with some european girls.
Looked up the window and could not see any mountains, not even a lake, just the building across the street.
The news headline were not about Tom taking Katie to a cruise, Paris’s latest boyfriend or whatever…
While going to work I got the wipers working everytime I tried to give a signal (need to get used to driving on the right again)

Yep, I’m back home…. :-(

Update: I’ve posted some pictures from the trip at my Flickr page and I’ll try to write a summary post soon…

Tight Schedule

New Zealand, Travel March 15th, 2006

I have a flight to catch on the 24th and so much stuff to do so I’m currently on a real tight schedule.

Yesterday I swam with Dolphins at Kaikora and due to the winds I got a real bad sea sickness so I’m lucky I have a lifter who

was able to takeover the driving role and get us to Nelson.

Today we’re going on a two days track on the Abel Tasman and on Sunday
morning I’m taking the fairy to the North Island where I have 3 days to
get to Auckland for my flight.

On those 3 days I plan to do the Tongariro day track and skydive at Taupo.

Hopefully the weather will not disturb these plans and I’ll get the Hubermans to join me…

See you all in a week! :)

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Muller’s Hut

New Zealand, Travel March 2nd, 2006


Muller’s Hut
Originally uploaded by Eran Kampf.

This is a photo taken during the climb to Muller’s Hut.
We had a great weather on the first day of the track. On the 2nd day it started raining and we had to get down of the mountain in rough conditions (rain, strong winds).

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The Road to Mt. Cook

New Zealand, Travel March 2nd, 2006


The Road to Mt. Cook #2
Originally uploaded by Eran Kampf.

From lake Tekapo I drove to Mount Cook to meet Eran & Tamar and do the Muller’s Hut track which was pretty tough…

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Leaving for New Zealand

New Zealand, Travel February 21st, 2006

After 5 years in which I’ve spent slaving for the army, finishing a CS degree (almost!) and working at SAP on Mendocino its time for me to take a break.

I am leaving for a month long vacation at New Zealand.

I’m going to try and use this blog as a travel log for my journey at New Zealand so if you’re only interested in tech related posts you can ignore this blog for a month or so :-)

Anyway, this is New Zealand:

I’m landing a Christchurch on February 24th where I have to get a car, open a bank account and get some sleep after 2 days of traveling from airport to airport.
From there, the planned route is:

Banks Peninsula, Lake Tekapu, Wanaka, Queenstown, Te Anau and the Milford sounds, Matakate Forest, Westland National Park (and the two glaciers), Arthur’s Path (do the Devil’s Archball track), Kaikoura, Abel Tasman National Park, Wellington, Tongariro Crossing, Aukland.

Hope it will all go well…