The last couple of weeks we have spent exploring Aotearoa New Zealand by driving from Auckland in the north down to Invercargill in the south. We have dropped off two resupply boxes along the way with new shoes, new clothes for Kim, some food and some Scandinavian candy we bought in Auckland. We've also tried to see other parts of the southern island that we wouldn't see along the trail, like the coasts and the glaciers 🏔️ In another post we will write a little bit more for those that are interested.

Now we will visit Rakiura/Stewart Island for a few days, and after that, we will start our long hike! We don't know the exact starting date because we don't know how long we will stay at Stewart Island, but most likely the middle to end of next week.

The plan is to try to update the same way as before:

🌿 A blog post every day, posted with a delay of 10 days

🌿 Occasional updates on our Instagram story (+Kims Facebook story) when we have mobile connection, which is not very often

🌿 Occasional summaries of the past few days as a post on our Instagram (or Kim's Facebook page)

🌿 On our Garmin Inreach you can see our last real-time location

🌿 Audio vlogs from the trail - not certain yet and we will write more about this later if we decide to do it!

Links can be found in our Insta bio or linktr.ee/lukasandkim

Every hike we have "fun stats" from the trail. What should we have this time?

Previously we've had everything from "how many Snickers we ate" to "lost items", "tent nights", "how many mount Everests we climbed" etc.

You can find previous ones here:

www.lukasandkim.com/blog/npl-stats

www.lukasandkim.com/blog/ts-stats

www.lukasandkim.com/blog/gb-stats