The Southern Alps

This beautiful mountain range runs the length of the South Island of New Zealand.  We made Queenstown our home base and took daily hikes-- the most memorable being the hikes to Tasman Glacier and to Kea Point, which overlooks the Mueller Glacier.   They are relatively easy hikes and the scenery is spectacular.

But oddly, it isn't the mountains that stir the memories of this place in my brain,  it is the young American couple we met at Kea Point.  They had spent three months traveling from the tip of the North Island to the bottom of the South riding bicycles the whole way!  Everywhere we go we seem to encounter these intrepid individuals.  There is a whole subculture of people who have managed to make travel a way of life.  Can I?