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Our road trip around South Island - the stats:
No. of kilometres covered: 2, 079
No. of days on S Island: 10
No. of hitch hikers picked up: 2
No. of 'flat whites' drunk by Maggie (per day): 3 (NZ has the best coffee in the world!)
No. of packets of mentoes bought by Owen (per day): 3
No. of dead possums seen on road: 20+
No. of possums we ran over: 0
No. of times we stopped to take photos of snow capped mountains/deep gorges/turquoise lakes: 100s!
No. of birds of prey which swooped past us: 100s!
No. of times we listened to 'Over Hills and Valleys' by Buju Banton: 40+
No. of wild kea birds seen: 1
No. of kingfishers seen: 3
No. of times I had to reverse off a narrow one-lane bridge because I should have given way to a massive truck already halfway across the bridge: 1
No. of police cars seen hanging around hoping to catch us breaking the 100kph speed limit: 50+
No. of speeding tickets we copped: 0 (ha ha!)
No. of times someone said "not a problem" to us: 20+
No. of zig-zag hairpin bends we went round on unfenced gorge edges: 100+
No. of times we were the only car to be seen for miles: 100+
No. of times we heard on the car radio an ad which went "if you drink and drive - you're a bloody idiot": 1
No. of times we crossed a gateless level crossing with no view of the railway track so we didn't know if a train was coming: 10
No. of times we got our car fuelled by a pump attendant who also washed our windows: 2
No. of times Owen sang that annoying song by Example: 100+
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