Ready to go south

I have just about finished packing my gear to do some hiking. I am catching a bus at 1:45pm today to go to Auckland then Ben is picking me up there. It'll be pretty cool to see one of my friends from the States over here, even if he is a Kiwi anyway. Then I am heading down south tomorrow to Queenstown and doing the Routeburn track. Won't be any more posts for a few days, but there should be good pics when I get back next Wednesday.