Well I am in Oxford, NZ hanging out with Katie Chambless who here for WYAM. I been here since Saturday afternoon and enjoying this quient town. I been using the adventures mode of transportation of hitch hiking to get around NZ. I thought I start making my way to Cook Mt to do copland pass today or tommorrow, but I have a raving case of the Fiji runs that refuses to go away. So I think that instead I will head to Queens Town and give my body a chance to rid myself of this nasty bug. Then I hope that I can get trekking in the woods.
I am happy to report that I did do some hiking yesterday up Oxford mt. It beutiful cloudy hike to start, but the rain moved in about 2 hours into hike and drove all of us hiking down off the mountain. In fact, it was raining so hard that trail turned into small creek as we all sloshed our way down. Nontheless, it fun adventure and it was hard not think around the corner that Frodo or sam might jump out. The trees around here are covered in this thick black funges that gives everything a look of once being in forest fire. And, yes there are sheep everywhere and even few scottish cows that remind me of the ranch.