The drive home from the airport took about 4 hours. You will see that some of the pictures are similar to what you might see in Wisconsin, but other pictures are definitely not. You can find areas in the US that look like these pictures, but in some cases you'd have to drive a lot longer than 4 hours to see scenes like these.
Going through a little town...
The town is known for a "fizzy" (soda) drink called "Lemon & Paeroa". Thus the large bottle of it in town (shown below). As explained by wikipedia: Lemon & Paeroa, also known as L&P, is a sweet soft drink manufactured in New Zealand. L&P is traditionally made by combining lemon juice with carbonated mineral water from the town of Paeroa. It is currently manufactured by Coca-Cola.
And like most towns in the US or New Zealand, you will find a ....
Back to the drive...
We call gas stations "petrol" stations. The below sign says $2.11 / litre (liter). There are 3.785 liters to a US gallon, therefore it's nearly $8 / gallon. Also it is a New Zealand dollar so we have to do the exchange rate - at the current exchange rate, it comes to $6.77 US / US gallon. Aren't you glad we don't pay this much for gas! (this is one of the reasons I don't have a car).
Back to the country....
Am I in Wisconsin?
Now this is a windbreak! The trees are tall but they slice them pretty thin to make this amazing windbreak:
Heading back into the populated areas... in other words getting close to where I live...
That's the Mount across the water in the distance.... almost home...
Up over the bridge...
Last picture of the drive... the harbor and the Mount... just a few minutes from my apartment.
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