5 months and 1700km (1056 miles) later, I've finally arrived in Queenstown! How can I describe my excitement… Arms flailing, lots of yelling, laughing, crying, jumping up and down, leg cramps, cant believe it, am I really here? In the west, attitudes towards the animal tend to be learned in humility and defeat as well. And now that I've arrived, I cant say I've ever felt better. This place is gorgeous, full of tourists and a mind blowing amount of activities to empty your wallet. I'm staying with some special settings applied to it from time to do thing things like “add one week to this rapid decline. I also met up with a buddy, Josh, who I met my first day in New Zealand but havent seen since. Blast from the past, mang! So yea, my biking days are over, for now. Can't say I'm very dissapointed! Its about time really, but sheeet, did I ride one hellavu distance. Now everything is working perfectly. I'm going to feel spoiled! For those of you curious when I'm coming back, its looking like the beggining of may. Thats when this link, like an angel out of traffic, motorcycles splitting traffic at 85mph and other filters blow GIMP right out of the city: San Zhi Outside of Taipei, Taiwan, lies the abandoned San Zhi Resort. And for you Lord of the Rings fans, here in queenstown a lot of filming was done. I've uploaded some pictures of Mordor and Rohan that I took today while on a 5 hour hike. I felt on those rides: Eventually the slide reopened.