Touring SI with Dream Girl. Need advice

[MyGSXF:Me]

We have 7 days in the South Island.

When is said trip happening?? Tis getting quite chilly to be camping out down here at night now... then again.. you could always snuggle to keep warm..

Def take her over the Takaka Hill & right out to Farewell Spit. There's a magic cafe overlooking the Spit.. lotsa swans & nice walks. The road between Takaka to Collingwood & onto the Spit is amongst my favourite pieces of road in the South! The Collingwood camp is rather quaint!

Do a Google search for camping areas at Hanmer & Maruia Springs. The hot pools at either are magic! You can hire private pools at both places, which are gorgeous.. & very romantic!

Go down the West Coast, where you can watch the sun set into the sea!!

Enjoy!!!

[Gremlin]

Blue pools near Haast Pass are supposed to be very good...

A trip on Doubtful or Milford Sound may be recommended?

[tigertim20]

if she is as mushy as you say, take her somewhere with a beautiful sunset, as as the sun sets in the sky, tell her all the reasons why you think she is amazing, then tell her you love her. If shes as mushy as you say she wont give a fuck where yaz are or what your doing after that. Plus youll probably get more pussy you can poke your dick at.
P.S. This also works if you dont really love her at all hahaha

[3L4NS1R]

Before we can offer fair, impartial and helpful advise - we need a pic of said missus.

You know I would if there weren't a chance of it getting back to her. Please note: her status is currently "the one that got away... twice." This is the great redeeming trip. Hopefully.

you could always snuggle to keep warm..

There is nothing more romantic than the classic spoon.


Cheers for the advice people! I'm finding it hard to remember that we'll be in a cage.. travelling times change!

At the moment I'm thinking the places to hit are: Hanmer Springs, Mt Cook, Wanaka, Milford, and Franz. Any advances on that?

Any super secret locations around those areas I should know about?

[CookMySock]

The biggest problem you will have sleeping on the ground is getting enough quality sleep. Can get a bit tetchy after 3-4 days of no sleep, and then any romantic ideas go out the window real quick.

Steve

[3L4NS1R]

Blue pools near Haast Pass are supposed to be very good...

A trip on Doubtful or Milford Sound may be recommended?

Milford is a definate must. No trip to the SI is complete without.

Blue pools? Wasn't tooooo impressed with them last time I saw them, however that may have been a combination of the hangover and the 400+ ks I had already done that day...

[Goblin]

Try holding out until the fourth night and she will be begging for it!

[3L4NS1R]

The biggest problem you will have sleeping on the ground is getting enough quality sleep. Can get a bit tetchy after 3-4 days of no sleep, and then any romantic ideas go out the window real quick.

Steve

Seen. This may call for the occasional night in a motel/backpacker. Will make some enquiries.

[Tank]

You know I would if there weren't a chance of it getting back to her.

come on ... if you cant trust a ton of strangers on KB who can you trust?

[Squiggles]

Motueka (awesome patisseries (sp?)) and just up from there for some awesome views and cool people

[Timber020]

Be very well prepared, nothing will piss a girl off more than if shes uncomfortable and sees little options of getting more comfortable and she sees you as the unprepared and hopeless cause of this! Have alternative plans and back up things to do if option 1 make her less likely to be a happy camper.

Make sure you have a gas cooker and billy plenty of warm dry clothing, an extra sleeping bag and comfort food and insect repelant and first aid kit. Big cheap warehouse tarp and some rope would be good to. You can get ration packs on trademe that have all sorts of food in them.

If you have a hatchback a single blow up matress will fit in with the seats folded down. I spent 3 months traveling in the back of a 92 ford laser in the states this way with a girl and it was pretty comfortable and when the weather crapped the bugs got bad or the bears got interested it meant a warm place to stay. Try it out before you go out to be sure its all fits. Get some payless plastic bins that will fit behind the front seats to help flaten the whole back out when the seats are down and they will work well to keep food in and be small tables when your eating outside.

Lots of clean water to. 4 2l coke bottles are probably enough.

Women are so much work.

[Gubb]

There is nothing more romantic than the classic spoon.

Well, Tank never complained. I think he was upset that he was always the "little spoon" though.

FUCK YOU FOG!

[Gremlin]

Gillespies Beach has a camping area, beach just over the dune, but reasonably exposed...

[Forest]

Leave early one morning and drive through the Marlborough back roads as the sun comes up. This is always a highlight for me.

Make sure to drive into the visitor carpark for Lake Rotoiti in the Nelson Lakes National Park. Stand back from the jetty and enjoy the epic landscape. Every time I visit there it seems like I've stepped into a dream.

http://images.google.com/images?q=lake+rotoiti+jetty

[3L4NS1R]

Be very well prepared...

some awesome advice there! cheers dude!

Already got the rations, water, and other supplies. Will test out that bed thing tonight! I've got a large cefiro stationwagon, one of the beautiful features of it is the seats fold down flat, extending out to the backs of the front seats. That makes a pretty large area where even I (at 6'3") can lie flat (almost). I'm thinking possibly a double airbed? (I have one of those already...)