Update to New Zealand

April 14 1:03pm

I totally forgot to add this until after I read through this and realized I didn't add it. But I forgot to mention that on the night we were driving from Franz Joseph to Q'Town or Q'Town back to Christchurch (I'm not really sure) we pulled over to the side of the road for a toilet break (see we didn't want to have to hook up at a campsite just to dump waste so we didn't use the facilities on board). After shutting down the RV and turning off the lights, we got out and realized we were right next to one one NZ's many one-lane bridges. We walked out on the bridge and looked up, and we were all held breathless: in the sky above us were millions upon millions of stars. I'm talking planetarium quality stars. So many stars that you couldn't even make out the Big Dipper or the Southern Cross. I have never in my life seen so many stars. It was incredible. And going right across the center of the sky, a faint, yet visible, section of Milky Way dust. It was one of the most awesome sights I have ever seen in my life. I really am at a loss for how to describe it in any more detail, it was just a pitch-black sky, no light pollution at all, and a crystal clear night. The moon was hiding that night too so there was no moonlight pollution either. Just millions of stars, all twinkling together to form an awesome canopy above us. It was so unreal, it felt as though we could have been in outer space travelling across the universe, except for the fact that gravity was holding us firmly to the ground and we were nowhere near outer space. I just felt I needed to add that fact in with my NZ write-up real quick. I have seen stars from the top of our hill at home, and those were quite an awesome sight themselves, but these put those to shame. It was definitely something everyone should see in their lifetime.