New Zealand motorcycle trip
New Zealand is awfully far away from Norway. You spend more than 24 hours flying there, which is tough if you, like me, don't sleep on airplanes. Finally there, you still have to adjust your internal clock 12 hours. It takes some effort, so it'd better be worth it. Motivation and preparation Like most of my travels, the motivation for going to Queenstown was a scientific conference, the Australasian Aluminium Smelting Technology Conference. Since my travel to Hawaii in 2006, I've been reluctant to travel to the opposite side of the world, in both directions. New Zealand has always intrigued me since reading about trout fishing in gorgeous rivers. I was a fan of Peter Jackson well before Lord of the rings, but his movies of Tolkien's universe made traveling to New Zealand even more attractive. It was pretty clear to me from the start that if I were to go to New Zealand, it would not be just for one week. The minimum time for a visit would have to be two weeks. Luck...