Now, we appreciate us and our time here.

It is with sadness in our hearts as we leave this beautiful country and all of these helpful and nice people. It's been a pleasure to be allowed to travel around in a country so easily with so many diverse environments that are breathtaking one after each turn.

We've also got to know some amazing people that we now have to leave. But if we are lucky, they'll come and see us at some time in Sweden. We also have a ticket back to New Zealand in October so when we have time to visit some of these goa friends again.

Here are the bikes now, out at sea ...

Motorcycles are packed and sent, and we sit in the dining room at YHA Auckland International and eat up the last remnants. It's nice weather and we are waiting for the bus to pick us up at the airport. We have said goodbye to the staff here at the hostel as we got to know a bit because this is the fourth time we live here.

So PLEASE, New Zealand, we will again ...

Now we've arranged everything.

We have been talking to Carotrans o, a company that belongs to Mainfreght and can receive our bikes when they come to Australia.

We have been two times in customs and arrange all the paperwork for the customs out our bikes from New Zealand, that is, carnets are filled out and stamped and we received a special export documents show that motorcycles are exported to Australia.

We have also been on the Australian Consulate and orderly so that we have received 12-month tourist visa to Australia, but how many enter and exit, we want during this period.

Then we went to Wilhelmsen shipping two times. First, we were picked up and all documents to be filled in order to take bikes on board the MV Mignon who sail from the port of Auckland on the 23rd of April. Then we left and all the paperwork filled out and was told that the bikes can be loaded at the earliest as of April 19 and the last on 21 th April.

Then we got a call and book with a transport company that can take on our bikes as ordinary individuals are not allowed to stay in port. We got some time booked with him on the 21st April at 09:00 at the main entrance to Auckland's port.

Then we go up to the Emirates airline office and asking us if we really needed a ticket from Australia again. Their rules say they can not let anyone on board to Australia if they have not booked a ticket from there again. We explained that, since we know neither the time or where we should go after Australia, it could be difficult to book a ticket for five or six months before we even arranged to transport bikes. It does not matter, we must have a ticket from Australia, period.

So we went down to a travel company in Auckland and booked a ticket back to New Zealand in late October because that is around the dates we are going from Australia and hopefully then to Chile, but we'll see what we can arrange to in transportation time. But in any case it seemed cheaper to travel to Chile via New Zealand so when it is approaching that we shall proceed to South America, we already have a ticket to New Zealand and so we only book one to South America somewhere. She told us that when it is just as well to book a return ticket or else we face the same problem again that we do not have a ticket from South America, also appeared that a round trip ticket was cheaper than a simple ticket ...

We have booked accommodation in a youth home in Sydney because without a "permanent address" can not get into Australia.

Kjell has been plugged in was the master switch on our bikes so that you can break away battery. This is because if they are to be on a boat in a week the computer on motorcycles to pull so much power that the batteries will be empty when they come to Australia. It's easier to just turn a key than to unscrew the wires from the battery.

Kersti, Karin's sister had arranged for more medical Kjell, sent it with DHL, hit a friend in Auckland. But because he was not home when the news came just took the package back and then we have to chase it all over Auckland. For a while they did not really know where it was located but now anyway Joel, o been downloaded it and put it in his fridge and we get it on Wednesday when we meet again.

We also washed the bikes again and made sure that they are clinically clean, otherwise they will not receive them in the port and loading them onto the boat. Then we went out on a motorcycle company and was replaced Kjell solvisir in the helmet because it has sat in his newly purchased helmet was not working as it should. They changed it without problems on the guarantee.

Between all this we managed to push the food shopping, cooking and dinner break and then we decided to write a bit in the blog too. We launched a washing machine and then managed to get up and hang the wet clothes before we went to work. Clean clothes must have.

After all this, we amused ourselves. We took a moment's break from work and everything went up the Sky Tower. As I said before, I'm not happy about heights but you do not have to stand and look down through the glass pane in the bottom of the lift, which makes it easier.

Here is nedaför Wilhelm's office, Australian consulate office and Emirates ...

We were richly rewarded up there where we stood and watched as the sun went down in Auckland and the horizon became darker and darker. Before we come down again had the lights tonight in Auckland had time to light up. As we walked home we were both pleased and excited that we managed to arrange everything and that everything slowly but surely coming together.

Another day in a traveling motorcyclist is living out.

The tower from the outside, high ...

Since we have not had time to take some pictures earlier today so it was just some pictures from the view of Auckland from SkyTower included.

Sunset over Auckland ...

Auckland

Auckland is a small city, but if you compare big cities in other countries. Here it is huge, with its one million inhabitants. Auckland and the surrounding area has about 1.5 million inhabitants, which means that about 33% of its population living in this region. The capital of New Zealand Wellington thought but in reality Auckland functioning more as such. Here are all the main ...

There is also the most crime of course. A Friday or Saturday night you can hear sirens all the time. When we drove through the center on Friday was largely cordoned off the center and one of the banks was probably the victim of a robbery. There were police everywhere and we were slowly but steadily conducted from the traffic police.

Cordoned off ...

For us it's not a big city. We ran with our bikes through cities such as Bangkok, Tokyo and St. Petersburg, Auckland so it feels a bit like a small town to us. The city itself can be compared with Helsingborg, both in appearance and size. It is also a lot of hills and has a port in the center.

The port in the center ...

New Zealand as a country is fantaskiskt. It would be easy to move here and feel at home here. Running around as a tourist is no problem and found himself immediately corrected. It's like Europe in many ways so it's easy to find both living and shopping. Skylting along the road looks and acts much like in Europe and the roads are really nice. Traffic is not a problem for most is the speed and regularity, and this is not much traffic for more than a day and in the cities.

These roads will of course have no ...

Where did the time go?

Now it starts to go against our last time in New Zeealand. Soon two months have flown away. But ... we've seen a lot, hit a lot of nice roads, met wonderful people, had a great time and seen nature so different from our natural home.

Sausages Break with spectators ...

There is everything from mountains to the finest beaches. We have fished, sailed, traveled by ferry, camp, lived in small cabins and hotels, helicopter and cable car gone and thrown snowballs at one another on a glacier, bathed in hot springs and drinking ice-cold water directly from the waterfall.

There is so much beauty along the roadside to watch ...

We've been on the northern tip of North Island and the southern tip of South Island and in between, we have tried to run in as many ways as we possibly could, back and forth through this amazing country.

Culture Break the Tui Brewery. ...

We also have our usual, met new friends here. Among others, Brian and Jocelyn who we live with right now in Papamoa in the North Island's east coast. They let us stay with them and we can borrow their washing machine and garage to prepare us for our continuing journey.

Scrub on Brian o Jocelyn driveway ...

Right now we are preparing ourselves to pack up bikes and send them to Australia. Kjell has been broken all my (Karin) and motorcycle cleaning filters, changing legislation, and washed the whole bike from the inside out. It may not be the slightest smutsflaga left on them when they enter the last check before being shipped to Australia. I have emptied out all our belongings and being clean. Sleeping bags, pillows, blankets and all our clothes are in neat piles, clean and nice, and should only be packed down again. Just as well to be careful ...

The last few days we drove from Wellington and come up to Papamoa. We have had good weather but it's getting colder here too in the North Island for the fall is on its way with great strides. When we were on the rise Kjell rear tire began to feel strange. It was as if it was solved ...

After looking very carefully, we found that on the right side around the entire deck had become a hole in the rubber so that you could see cordes (metal) in the deck, and the whole deck seemed completely solved.

Kjell's tires with holes and all ...

What had happened was that when Kjell was punctured, it has probably got into the air between Cordes and rubber, then the entire deck and detached in the curves, it has therefore become a hole straight back rubber. Good thing we ran so quietly that he had a puncture again.

Time to change ...

I had to order new tires and when we were on the move so we ordered all four wheels. New fresh tires for both of us. It was much needed because we have not changed since we ran away from home ...

Beautiful 'terrace' ...

With the new tires were new to motorcycles. We drove the last mile up to Papamoa in two days and we stayed basically just to make us some hot dogs on the beach and sleeping on a camp. Suddenly, it was so great to just run again. New tires do the trick ...

From south to north ...
Right now we are sitting in a small cabin on a camp in Picton. To drizzle outside and there are perhaps 5 degrees hot. It smells like the sea.
We have been and bought tickets for the ferry to go away tomorrow and it cost $ 214 to go over with two pieces of motorcycles to the North Island again. We were out shopping at the supermarket and just eaten a simple chili stew with meat and beans and a baked potato to it. It's what you can do in as simple a kitchen like this in the camping cabin. Me now, we are full and warm again.

Today's run was pretty cool. When we left Hanmers run this morning was snow along the roadside in some places.

Outside the hotel, together with Anthony.

When we were in Bluff, we met Anthony Edward who owned the hotel, the Bay View Hotel, where we lived. He turned out to be a real motorcycle enthusiast and still compete with their bikes as fast as he has time. We sat and talked with him until some time after at one, then we drove on.

World's Fastest Indian ...

We drove into the Invercargill to watch Burt Munro a motorcycle, the world's fastest Indian, who stands inside at E Hayes & Sons Ltd, which is a hardware store and a museum.

On this beach Munro trained to become the fastest in the world ...

A great business which he uses while screwdrivers and tools can take the opportunity to look at all the motorcycles and old machines that are given throughout the store.

This is what I call hardware ...

There is also an engine built by Norman Hayes pots, wood, a steamer and other gamalt scrap. Originally flask of hard wood but it is now replaced with a metal piston.

Viewing the home-made engine ...

As we stood there and studied for a long while the engine was one of the employees and asked if we wanted to see the engine running, and of course we wanted it. So we got a private tour of this amazing creature that worked great.

Since we began our journey northward. The weather was not exactly perfect all the time but mostly we had a break while we drove over the pass, one finer than the other. We have run over the highest paved pass called Crown Range Summit and that it is 1076 meters above sea level.

Loud and beautiful ...

We've been running on very straight roads and in a very roundabout way. In lakes and coasts and in the mountains so beautiful that it just boggles. I think we mentioned it before but I will say it again, this is so beautiful that you hardly believe their eyes.

At one point, people had built sculptures out of a beach, beautiful ...

When we were in Wanaka, it was also an air show, over Wanaka Warbird. A whole day was Kjell away and looked at the old aircraft and flight times.

Warbird ...
There were Spitfires, Mustangs, Yak in different versions from World War II, Catalina, Hercules, F-16 and lots of other goodies. Here were all south of the Earth aviation enthusiasts gathered so Kjell was in good company all day.

We have also been looked at and Franz Josef glacier.

It took about an hour to walk the walk up to the glacier but it was worth it. It is almost like a living organism that grows and shrinks very slowly and it flows down into the valley.

The water gushed out of a tunnel under the ice. When we walked in the valley you could see the tracks from the ice from long ago when the glacier was greater. Far up the mountain sides, there were scuff marks from the ice.

Here you can watch out for the train ...

New Zealand is a wonderful place. It can run in valleys along rivers with clean water so that you can easily drink the water. There are waterfalls everywhere in the valleys that plunge from the heights and down into a river near the bottom. There are narrow bridges where you can not meet another car, it is even bridges that you share with rail ...