From Grads to Nomads

Yesterday we had to be out of our Paihia hostel at 9:30 am, so we decided to drive north to Ninety Mile beach to check out the surfing and sand boarding. 100km turned into almost a 2 hour drive, through extremely twisted and windy roads, and surprisingly, well actually shockingly, I was the only person to not feel at all nauseous! We got to Ahipara, and it is a tiny trashy town on the coast. The people working in the adventure shop and the conveience store were anything but friendly and the beach was really not that nice, so we decided to get the heck out of there. Since we enjoyed Raglan so much, we are back here now, but yesterday ended up being 12 hours on the road, as we got caught in traffic on the way back down through Auckland, and finally pulled into the hostel at 9:30pm. The owners here are fantastic and remembered us and are now making special arrangements to keep us here for 3 day!