here's a few of reykjavik, i'll see if i can find more later, and one of some geysirs.

here's pics of the farm my great grandfather lived on, and Husavik, the closest town to it

and, a couple of the landscape around akureyri

^ I wanna go there.......sooo nice

So I decided to resurect this thread, because my flights to New Zealand have been confirmed, my job applications have been sent in, and as of tomorow, I will have sent in all the paperwork for my work VISA. WOOT!!

here's my flight schedule:

April 25, 5:55pm - Calgary to Los Angeles
April 25, 8:03pm - arrive in Los Angeles
April 25, 11:00pm - Los Angeles to Auckland
April 27, 6:45am - arrive in Auckland

May 19, 7:00am - Wanganui to Auckland
May 19, 8:00am - arrive in Auckland
May 19, 9:00am - Auckland to Christchurch
May 19, 10:20am - arrive in Christchurch
May 19, 10:45am - Christchurn to Wanaka
May 19, 11:45am - arrive in Wanaka

August 20, 12:15pm - Wanaka to Christchurch
August 20, 1:10pm - arrive in Christchurch
August 20, 2:50pm - Christchurch to Auckland
August 20, 4:10pm - arrive in Auckland
August 20, 9:45pm - Auckland to Los Angeles
August 20, 2:40pm - arrive in Los Angeles
August 20, 7:15pm - Los Angeles to Calgary
August 20, 11:19pm - arrive in Calgary

that's a shitload of flying

:eek: my god Jibber...thats a lot of flying as you said....also what will you be doing in New Zealand...and why do you have to fly that much just to get there

haha, well, for the first month i'll be backpacking in the north island, making my way from auckland to wanganui. Then i'll fly from wanganui to wanaka, and work there for three months at Treble Cone ski resort (hopefully!), which will allow me to ski, then I come home 2 days before I start college again :D

Basically, all those connections make the flight cheaper, and wanaka's airport doesnt fly out of new zealand, so i have to make connections through chirstchurch to get to auckland which will fly me to LA, which is the cheapest way i can get back to calgary. so yeah. i'm stoked.

O boy haha.........sounds cool though thanks to you the two places i want to travel to one day are Iceland (due to the pictures you posted) and well ive always wanted to go to New Zealand

haha, sweet. yeah i'm definitely going to have to go back to iceland at some point, but there are so many other places I want to go to first. It's such a relief to finally have all the paperwork sorted out, now all I have to do is get all my college applications through (and get accepted) so I can actually go to school next year. oh, and somehow make it through the rest of the semester without dropping out.

What are you studying?

Right now, visual arts, and i LOATHE it. Love art, CAN'T STAND studying it in college. Hopefully i'll be accepted into a 2 year diploma photojournalism program at another college here in calgary. it's a really great program that also gives me 2 years credit at the University of Calgary for the bachelor of communications degree. That combination is REALLY well recognized, and most people get really great jobs right after they graduate from the comunications program. So the plan is, spend 2 years getting my diploma in photojournalism, take a year or 2 off to do the ski bum thing, then get my bachelors in communications, and try for a job writing or taking pictures for a ski magazine.

Hey um jibber, you know that you can bus most places in New Zealand for half the price of air tickets don't you?

Christchurch to Wanaka for example. Half the price. Or even a third.

Or buy a cheap car and sell it again when you leave.

the reason i'm flying is that my dad can get those flights for free. yay air points racked up from rediculous amounts of international business trips.

Originally I didn't want my parents using their points for my flights. but they insisted, told me they had WAY more points than they knew what to do with (my dad flies out of the country pretty much every week, he has a lot), and seeing as how their moving and renovating our new house, they wont have time to take a vacation, so I accepted. Plus, this way I get as much time to travel around the north island freely before I have to be in wanaka for job interviews, if I took a bus that would knock off a lot of time.

Ahhhh. Lucky, you never mentioned that. In that case, **** the buses, lets go flying:p:

haha, yeah i know, i was blown away. I keep offering to pay them back when i get home, but they wont let me, so meh, I guess it's not use making things harder on myself now is it? :)

Just booked my trip today, going to Vegas May 29th for 5 days. A much needed getaway jam packed with as much sin as I can get away with, I love Vegas it is definately my kind of town. I think to commemerate the event I will get my first tattoo at H+H

^good stuff. although have you thought about what kind of tattoo you're going to get? plus, don't drink too much before you do it, you could end up with something very undesirable.

I'm going to get the Hank Williams III logo on the back of my neck. It is the same as the Black Flag logo but with three bars instead of four, small and subtle and can be covered by a collar.

Nice photos, Jibber! Have a great time!