{"id":5047,"date":"2009-03-19T04:01:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T02:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/?p=5047"},"modified":"2011-01-22T08:22:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T06:22:58","slug":"off-2-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/blog\/travels\/off-2-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"OFF 2 New Zealand !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, a lifelong dream is about to come true \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I&#8217;ve kept it secret until now but here are the news guys: Tonite I&#8217;m flying out of Perth via Melbourne to Christchurch, New Zealand !!!<\/p>\n<p>The Mission: Photo-Roadtrip with my <a title=\"Check out Ian's website !\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iantraffordphotos.com\/\">good kiwi-mate Ian Trafford, THE sickest photographer<\/a>, who I already had the pleasure working with in the past, check out my portfolio for all published articles, Ian&#8217;s photos are\u00a0 i n s a n e !<\/p>\n<p>The plan is hook up with Ian on the South island and find blindbowing spots to shoot\u00a0 .\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure New Zealand has so many stunning places. Let&#8217;s hold fingers crossed that weather Gods are on our side with wind &amp; sun when Ian and myself explore the &#8216;last paradise&#8217; in search for the sweetest, sickest spots around \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I will try to keep u in the loop with everything as frequently as possible &#8230; it all depends on internet availability along the way.\u00a0 I will be traveling (and living) in a camper van and once the waves of the south island have been properly shredded, I will take the ferry across to the north island, where some of the World&#8217;s best wavespots are located: Raglan and Taranaki, yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah !!!<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait for this exciting journey 2 start \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 &#8230;my arm is suuuper blue, in fact getting bluer every day, bruised as <a title=\"Check out the kitemare-story !\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/blog\/travels\/kitemare-in-monster-swell\/\">from my recent kitemare<\/a>, when I got a line wrapped around my arm, whilst being heavily washed by some monster-waves out a gnarly wave spot&#8230;somebody must have watched over me, how lucky I was the line just suddenly snapped !?<\/p>\n<p>Life&#8217;s an adventure &#8211;\u00a0 carper diem !!<br \/>\nMore from kiwi-land soon,<br \/>\nGabi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, a lifelong dream is about to come true \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 I&#8217;ve kept it secret until now but here are the news guys: Tonite I&#8217;m flying out of Perth via Melbourne to Christchurch, New Zealand !!! The Mission: Photo-Roadtrip with my good kiwi-mate Ian Trafford, THE sickest photographer, who I already had the pleasure working with [&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":[41,1173,53,1175,323,324,1174,716],"class_list":["post-5047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travels","tag-australia","tag-christchurch","tag-ian-trafford","tag-melbourne","tag-new-zealand","tag-perth","tag-roadtrip","tag-western"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5047"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5057,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions\/5057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitegabi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}