{"id":5333,"date":"2009-06-16T12:20:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T10:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?p=5333"},"modified":"2009-06-16T12:20:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T10:20:06","slug":"last-ride-in-the-tasman-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/blog\/travels\/last-ride-in-the-tasman-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Last ride in the Tasman Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a great joy ride yesterday at Muriwai Beach, the main kitebeach in the Auckland area on NZ&#8217;s wild, wild West coast which also marked most probably the very last ride for this trip in New Zealand.\u00a0 I will be flying out on Saturday and as you can imagine, have looooads to organize and do till then. Computer, packing, organizing my next project and and and&#8230; ahhhhhhhhh, whilst all I really want: to start my NZ-adventure ALL OVER AGAIN \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>It was a typical NZ-day, we had &#8216;4 seasons in a day&#8217;, rainsqualls passing, hauling wind, then again sunshine and blue skies, smooth 20 knots and then BANG again and back to another season&#8230; \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A really good mate of mine, who I owe more than I ever could express in words to\u00a0 (I&#8217;ve been welcomed to stay at his lovely, chill-mansion for the past weeks ever since I returned my campervan. His home was my home and it was soooo important to have a home after my 14.oookm joyride. So much to catch up on the computer, 5000 photos to select&#8230;how would I have ever managed without a home like I had here &#8211; THANX MATE !!!), took me away from the computer and down to Muriwai for a last, very emotional session in the roaring tasman Sea.\u00a0 Yeah, I stayed out till sunset, cruizing along the golden light, reflecting on my time here in Aotearoa, the original M\u0101ori name (ao tea roa translated \u201cLand of the Long White Cloud\u201c).<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s NZ, the country that I fell in luv with over the last 3 months.\u00a0\u00a0 Every dream has to come to an end, though, and so will my once-in-a-lifetime-kiwi-adventure in a few days&#8230;\u00a0 \u00a0I feel sad inside but as soon as I start getting emotional, I try to change those feelings into the opposite and feel truly grateful for this unforgettable adventure and all the amazing experiences and\u00a0new friendships\u00a0that I have been privileged to\u00a0make along the way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I could write a novel here&#8230;\u00a0 Pictures do say more than words, though, and I&#8217;m currently in the process of selecting the very best photos, soon to be posted here in the blog section exclusively 4 U !!!<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned, more to come soon mates,<br \/>\nYours abi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a great joy ride yesterday at Muriwai Beach, the main kitebeach in the Auckland area on NZ&#8217;s wild, wild West coast which also marked most probably the very last ride for this trip in New Zealand.\u00a0 I will be flying out on Saturday and as you can imagine, have looooads to organize and do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1251,1242,1253,349,1252,840,63,1223,1195,42,1187],"class_list":["post-5333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels","tag-aotearoa","tag-auckland","tag-campervan","tag-island","tag-muriwai","tag-new","tag-north","tag-sea","tag-tasman","tag-waves","tag-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5333"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5347,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions\/5347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}