Dudes, Seriously......

This was a freaking sick day. Not only did I skip out on work the whole day but I went Heli-boarding with some peeps from work and some Japanese fellow from.....um.....Japan.



Here is a picture of the Sheep Ranch which we took the Heli from. It was so peaceful here. It is actually a B&B out in the middle of nowhere. It took about an hour to drive here from work and is kinda on the other side of the mountains I work and live on. Some of the mountain ranges that we flew to were spots were they filmed some of Lord of the Rings. They filmed all over the place down here and apparently they have some sort of tour somewhere to show you some spots like that..er something. You can tell I know a lot about it.

So the Heli took us from the farm up into the Southern Alps and dropped us off in the middle of nowhere. Or should I say the top of nowhere. Our first run they call Coast to Coast because it is close to the divide and you can see the west and east coast of new zealand standing on the top of this mountain. Absolutely breathtaking. I should have taken more photos but I was taking so much video at that time.

We got to snowboard on a glacier which was cool except we had to be careful for crevices, which I wasn't and got a stern talking to. Then after a few runs we had lunch up in the mountains as you can see in the picture below. There was a lot of different food....and lollies (candy) to eat. In the picture you can see where there was an avalanche slied within the last 2 weeks in that area, and all the brown rock on the left side is where a glacier came through and pushed its way down the mountain......that was longer than 2 weeks ago. Then we went up for a few more runs and I ate it pretty hard a couple times but since there is soft snow I just slide around until I regain conciousness.



I put together a little video of the Heli ride but because it is a couple minutes I knocked down the quality a bit. Still you can kind of enjoy it.



Oh ya, I almost forgot. When I do come back to the states, I will probably be going to jail. Hopefully customs will let me through without finding a bench warrant for my arrest. Apparently 2 weeks ago I flew back to Nebraska to get pissed drunk at Hay Days in Cozad, and got arrested for pissing in an alley while I was looking for some girl. And then flew back to New Zealand without missing any work. I was pretty impressed with myself too. My court date is sometime soon and Im pretty sure I will be missing it, hence the bench warrant. I might be seeing this man in New Zealand soon.

NZ Moto GP

Ahhhhhh, feels good to get back on two wheels. Not only can I piss people off in America on a bike but apparently I can do the same in New Zealand. No no no, don't worry I didn't make any kiwi's angry.


I rented a Honda VFR800 and took it to Akaroa over some real sketchy roads. Sometimes even with ice and grit on the pavement. The drive was amazing once I got to the highway and was nonstop corner after corner.....with a few straight aways long enough to hit 210 kph, but when I did it was headed straight into a 55 kph corner. The bike is definitely capable of hitting more than that.


This was a picture of the Southern Alps that you can't really see too well in the picture but real life it was absolutely gorgeous. I had to stop and thank God for making this crazy country so beautiful.


The Road I took to Akaroa


New Zealand has a bunch of different advertisements along the side of the roads talking about slowing down, car accidents, drink driving, (that's right, "drink" driving) and racing. I saw this one while I was headed there and thought it was the coolest one I have seen yet. The interesting thing about them is that these advertisements are all over the place but hardly any two are alike.


This was a cool monument that displayed all of the peoples names who fought and died in WWI and II that were from Akaroa. Kinda interesting. The outside I thought was cool it said,"The Glorious Dead".


A spot where you have the mountains on one side and the ocean on the other so close you can almost drag your foot in it.

Bye Bye Lady Friend

Yesterday Crystal and I took it easy and drove up to Hanmer Springs and sat in some natural hot thermal pools which was very relaxing. The hottest pool was 106 degrees farenheit. It was very pretty because it was raining at first and then snowing a lot while we were in the pools. It was so cold trying to dry off afterwards though, plus somebody younked my towel so I didn't even have a towel afterwards. I just stood in the bathroom and stared at the wall for 10 minutes to dry off.

I dropped off Crystal at the airport today which was sad to see my friend go. We had a lot of fun together doing everything and especially nothing. I will get to see her again when she has her wedding in Nebraska in June.

After I dropped her off I headed South to Oamaru which is a very old historic looking city. The whole place had gorgeous buildings just like this one.

I ate an awesome sandwich at a very posh resturant on the beach called H2O (Harbor 2 Ocean). The doors to the place were pivited in the middle, but weren't revolving so you always pushed through the door on the leftside. It looked like the secret door you always want your fireplace to turn into to take you back to the room with all t he cylinders, beakers, schematics and bunson burners. I had an NZ beer there and laughed at the lady when she asked me if I wanted a glass. She could tell I was hardcore after that...


I went to watch the penguins come in to shore which was next door to the resturant. They have a little colony here of blue penguins which are really small penguins. They are really cute and you are not supposed to take pictures or video of them. So I took Steve Parkers advice from when he filmed the Letterman show when we were in the nose bleed section and filmed anyways. That is why it is terrible because most of it was out of the side of my hoodie and sometimes with the headhancho standing right beside me so forgive the crappy video where it is hard enough to make them out in such low light conditions.


I'm excited to get back to work because we had a huge storm come through and the mountains got dumped on, so that means fresh powder. Tony my German coworkers car was covered with snow.

IM NOT MIA

Sorry kids, ive been busy working at the mount-tain where I dont have interweb.

Jermey Jones the mammoth snowboarder that is everything snowboarding is came up to Mt. Hutt last week. It was freaking awesome. The dumped some snow on by this rail in the front where it is really violent down-flat-down kink rail as he 270's on and then hits a kicker on the roof to grind the roof and jump off. Sick stuff



Chris and I wore our RayRay suits to the mountain and took some awesome video. Here is just a picture of how hot we were.....our pants were so tight you could bounce a quarter off of us. And I grew out a handlebar mustache just for the occasion. We rode down the mountain at one point with no shirts on and I about froze my chest off. The only people who didn't enjoy it were a group of 10 year old girls that we rode past whilst hearing screams and gasps and "gross" "disgusting" coming from their now tainted minds.







And better yet Crystal Lindburg is here hanging out with me from Nebraska. She has been in Aus for awhile and needed to leave the country for her visa for some reason and came to see me.....yeah!!!! so we went to Kiakoura and chased around Sealions and played on the beach. It was SOOO incredibly gorgeous..........and so was the scenery. hahahahahah hahah hahaha (crystal is sitting behind me) Ladies!!!



We chased around the sealions at Kiakoura and Crystal almost got eaten.





I also dragged her up to come snowboarding with me and she did freaking awesome for the first time in 5 years. She was a natural.



Ive gotta get going cuz Crystal and I are going to either Hanmer Springs for some hot springs or Milford sound for a rainforest type experience.

Peace in the mideast, I mean midwest