Tefas

Buying a car sound like a super serious business, and well it sort of is, but also one of the most common things to do as a backpacker in New Zealand. Why? Because going by buss and sleeping in hostels is a pretty expensive way to get around, so is renting a car. But if you buy a car it's guranteed that you will get the money back when you sell it (or at least half the price) and it gives you a flexability you will never get from busses or car rental limitations. So, we went through the website trademe and looked for cars for a couple of days but could never find one good enough and cheap enough. The car should have a WOF (warrent), registration and preferably be a station wagon so you easily can sleep in it. And after spending 57 hours at Burger kings wifi we finally found one, so we went to Manukau city to meet up with Elvira and go home to Joshua and buy a car from him. 

 

So we went for a test drive, checked some (later in the story you'll understand why I say "some" and not "all") of the essential things, packed the luggage with all our stuff and left. We filled it with food, tents, yogamats (to sleep on), camping equipment and three swedish girls. 

 

We drove for 3 hours and got all the way from Auckland region to Whananaki. We ate cookies, listened to music and just lost our senses because of the beautiful scenery that we passed by. Everything was fine until it got dark and we couldn't find a campsite close enough and cheap enough. After some mumbling and thinking we chose one, accidentally slept outside of the campsite and then escaped the morning after without paying for it. 

 

And then came karma, a beautiful new found friend of mine. After 5 minutes we got a SUPER flat tire in the middle of nowhere. We could see only one house in the area so we went there and asked for help. And here starts the ironically fun part. The lady that helped us told us 1. we have different sizes on our tires. 2. our registration has expired. 3. we're fools to not have checked if we had a spare tire. 4. she just laughed at our misirability. So no, we definitely didn't check all the important details... what a day right? At least she helped us with EVERYTHING and left us with two new tires and directions about how to fix the registration.