Rob and Valerie at the North Arm Hut
One of the things that I like about travel is how things are always
new.
I never knew what the next day would bring and a lot of times I didn't
know where I would go. There were some days where I had plans to
do something and five minutes before I left, I changed my mind.
It
was like that with the Copland Track. I was going to be catching
a bus at 8:00 a.m. to go somewhere that I don't remember anymore.
At 7:55 I changed my mind. I went back to the hostel and repacked
my pack for going on the tramp and hitched a ride to the
trailhead.
I thoroughly enjoyed being on the Copland Track, so things worked out.
Even though I had serious regrets about not doing the Northwest
Circuit,
things worked out in the end. I didn't know what the day would
bring
when I changed from the Northwest Circuit to the Rakiura Track.
In
the end, the day introduced me to Valerie and Rob.