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The Best Escapes from Auckland

This post is not about Auckland sightseeing—it’s about what to do once you’ve had your fill of it.

Time changes people—and places; it usually improves them, even if it doesn’t fully heal.

Certainly, people like the Archduke had bigger things to worry about.

How could it have taken me so long find stillness in moments like these, when I have so many fewer left than I’ve already lived?

New Zealand is a satisfying destination, albeit one that’s imperfect in many of the ways I suspected it would be.

I feel guilty saying this, but I also hate to lie: Most of the things to do in Rotorua left me less than inspired.

I’m in fucking New Zealand.

The first full day of a long trip is always something of a reckoning.