Touring the North Island

Recently, Maggie and Matt took off with Katie to race around the North Island of New Zealand in a rented car.

Even more recently, Google released something called "My Maps." This allows someone to track their journey on a satellite map and add text and pictures, so that they can make a kind of travelblog out of the whole thing. So click on the picture below and take your own tour of the North Island through the eyes of 3 young college grads out to find something in New Zealand besides sheep and delicious lamb meat.


You can also check out the Web Album for full-sized pictures of the whole journey.

At this point, I'd like to give my thanks to Google, which made the following possible:

1. Blogger - for the writing
2. Blogger Buzz - for giving us street rep
   
3. Goggle Talk - for getting directions from friends in net cafes when we were lost
4. Google Maps - to prevent getting lost in the first place
5. My Maps - for the travelblog (tripcast, iMap, maplog, plog...what's the term for that?)
   
6. Picasa - for the web albums we can link to blogger
7. G-mail - for notifying my family about my status (Alive or Dead)
8. Google search - for bringing new folks to the blog
   
9. Google Ad-sense - for the procuring of $$
   
10. Google Finance - for helping get all my $$'s together to fund the whole thing.
    

Thanks guys

Coming soon: The South Island Tour