We woke up and drove into auckland, it is time to sell our Serena! We found a motor camp just 10min from downtown. The weather was extremely humid and we were more then ready to take showers! We got our clothes together and as we were tearing apart the van looking for our towels when it hit us and we realized our bag with our towels was back at the glowworm caves. We still showered and just dried off with the last of our dry clothes, and started the laundry. Change of plans, now it was get to bed early and up early in the morning to drive back to the caves and pick up our stuff, YAY!
The drive went really smooth, we got out of Auckland before morning rush hour and were at the caves in 2.5 hours flat and back to Auckland with towels in hand by noon. Had to do another load of laundry as our towels and wet cave cloths were already smelling quite ripe! We also washed Serena at the motor camp which had a hose, brush and all the essentials available for use. Along with all the cleaning we watched the rain fall all afternoon and looked up some hostels to drop fliers off manana.
The next morning we went for a run right away to escape the humidity, it was weird to run again as almost all of the exercise we have been getting has been straight up or down on the Kiwi hikes. Got back from the run and spent a couple hours vacuuming Serena, washing the inside and making under the hood look clean with some degreaser the motorcamp owner gave us. Once Serena was shining we headed down town and spent the rest of the afternoon in and out of hostels dropping of fliers. We also stopped by the backpackers buy-backs and were shocked how many vans were for sale. We had heard they were hard to come by in January and Feb but there seams to be an overload of them as people head home for Christmas and a new wave of tourists come after the holidays. We had no luck with people immediately interested from the hostels but felt good about getting the word out on the street now just wait for the calls to roll in!
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