{"id":151,"date":"2020-01-03T09:05:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T09:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/?p=151"},"modified":"2020-02-03T15:37:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:37:32","slug":"the-88-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/2020\/01\/03\/the-88-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The $88 Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 2nd, 2020 was a free day for us, so we stayed in for the morning. After most of the other guests cleared out of the apartments to sightsee, I was able to connect the netbook to the internet for the first time, and put up the New Year&#8217;s Eve post. By late morning, we moved out. Had the $15 lunch special at a place called Brazz. Merrianne got the Buffalo Chicken Wrap, while I got the All Day Breakfast.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/files\/2020\/01\/HPIM6394s.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM6394s.JPG\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">No drinking on the streets in Queenstown during the New Year season. Not a bad idea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/files\/2020\/01\/HPIM6429s.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM6429s.JPG\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">See that mountain in the background? We wanted to hike to the top of that. There&#8217;s a track leading up there that&#8217;s a couple km long.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/files\/2020\/01\/HPIM6422s.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM6422s.JPG\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unfortunately, when we got to the trailhead, some locals told us that there was a downed tree on the track, and it was closed. So we had to take the gondola, at $44 each for a round trip. That tree cost us $88. This picture is looking down towards the city from the gondola.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/files\/2020\/01\/HPIM6420s.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM6420s.JPG\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">And the view from the other angle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/files\/2020\/01\/HPIM6398s.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM6398s.JPG\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the gondola, we could see the mountain bike trail below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/files\/2020\/01\/HPIM6399s.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM6399s.JPG\" width=\"800\" height=\"681\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As well as the walking path that was closed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/files\/2020\/01\/HPIM6417s.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM6417s.JPG\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the top of the gondola, there was a gift shop, restaurant, and another chairlift taking people up to ride the roller luges down. The cars were actually not that fast, and sometimes would stall when the slope wasn&#8217;t steep enough.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/files\/2020\/01\/HPIM6403s.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM6403s.JPG\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">We availed ourselves of the short Skyline Loop Track (=trail) near the top. There was also the Ben Lomond Track, we didn&#8217;t have enough time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/files\/2020\/01\/HPIM6406s.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM6406s.JPG\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The trail was well-marked.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/files\/2020\/01\/HPIM6410s.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM6410s.JPG\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the top was a paraglider takeoff and landing zone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/files\/2020\/01\/HPIM6416s.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM6416s.JPG\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/files\/2020\/01\/HPIM6413s.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM6413s.JPG\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This girl was the third of three people who took off while we were up there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yJcTiWj1cZ8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/files\/2020\/01\/HPIM6425s.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM6425s.JPG\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back down in town, we spent some time hanging out at the lakeshore.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/files\/2020\/01\/HPIM6426s.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM6426s.JPG\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mee Goreng and Hoisin Duck at Madame Woo&#8217;s for dinner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/files\/2020\/01\/HPIM6427s.jpg\" alt=\"HPIM6427s.JPG\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back to Night &#8216;n Day for the next day&#8217;s breakfast. These mueseli bars were big and heavy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 2nd, 2020 was a free day for us, so we stayed in for the morning. After most of the other guests cleared out of the apartments to sightsee, I was able to connect the netbook to the internet for the first time, and put up the New Year&#8217;s Eve post. By late morning, we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/2020\/01\/03\/the-88-tree\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The $88 Tree&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/nz2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}