Rotorua to Auckland

I left the hostel this morning and headed out onto the road towards Auckland to meet Phil Duckett, whom I used to work with as a Broadband Engineer. The road to Auckland was fairly busy and got busier the closer I got to Auckland. Finally I was on the motorway and hit the Friday afternoon traffic, this is the most traffic I have seen since navigating round Melbourne! After a couple of disjointed calls to Phil he eventually met me at the exit of the Motorway and led me to his house in Waitakere. That evening we went for an evening meal at Juan Kelly's house, who also used to work on the same Broadband Engineering Team as me and completely independently decided to move out to New Zealand at the same time as Phil and they both ended up living about ½ a mile from each other and working on the same Telecom NZ team, uncanny.