Queenstown earned its name back in the late 1800s when the New Zealand government declared that it was a place “fit for a queen”.
Category Archives: Backpacking
Fiordland is the stuff that dreams are made of, the kind of scenery that trumps you and re-focuses your perspective on just how remarkable the earth really is. There are a total of 14 deep, glacier-carved fiords on the West Coast of Fiordland, all of which are called sounds instead of by the correct name fiords, which is by definition a glacier-carved inlet of the sea.
I am traveling New Zealand a little bit differently than I have traveled other places before in the past.
This time around, I am traveling with what is essentially a hop-on, hop-off tour bus called Stray Tours, which was recommended to me by some friends.
It was not until I sat down at my gate that I felt my legs start bouncing up and down, a habit of mine that I would get yelled at for when I was growing up. I looked down at the Lonely Planet guidebook sat in my lap.
One of the many questions I am usually asked by friends and family back home is how I go about packing my life into a backpack, especially when I do not know exactly what I am packing for.
I still do not consider myself the best packer of all time, but because I am traveling solo straight from the start, I knew I had to have my bases covered.
