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It's been almost three years since my last journal so about time for a new one :) Funny how it follows my return from the other side of the planet - again. This time it falls even more true since the trip went to New Zealand and the time difference is nothing less than 12 hours. Combine that with 43 hours of travel, start to end, and you should think jet lag would become a huge problem. Fortunately not :) NZ was amazing and although it reminds me of, and looks a lot like, Norway on the west coast - it also is very different. Me and my travel buddy Kenneth rented a car in Auckland and drove from there to Rotorua, Waitomo, Rotorua (oh yes... d

So I've been back from Japan almost a week now and I'm slowly starting to feel normal again ;) Arriving in Tokyo on the first day was kind of crazy, but finding my way to the hotel were not as hard as I had imagined it to be fortunately. All signs you need to find your way are in English and if you stop and look a bit confused people come over to you and try their best to help you find your way even if they don't speak any English at all :) The first two weeks traveling with the Intrepid group managed to go by incredibly fast and at the same time feel like it lasted at least twice as long as the actual time it took. We were 8 people, includ