Car Rental

Thurs Sept 17/09 Auckland New Zealand
Time to pickup the car. The rental place is right across the street, good choice I say. Loaded our bags into the car and programed Tom and off we go. How at this point I have no idea if we are heading in the right direction. It isn't long that Tom is very sure that we are indeed heading the right way. I programed Tom to take the shortest way but stay on paved roads. We were treated to country roads and views of farms and rolling green hills. As we drove farther south we climbed up into mountains with forest. The sky is overcast with some rain. It is much cooler and feels good. We drove through Rotorua then to Taupo at the north end of Lake Taupo. We will stay here tonight and look around as much as we can tomorrow. We are told there is more to see here and north up to Rotorua. They have thermal steam coming out of the ground just about every where here. At Rotorua we could smell the minerals in the air as they have hot springs and mineral pools there and in Taupo they are hot water pools (about 40). We will wait until tomorrow. DDT