Hiking is one of my favourite leisure activities. How about you?
I also like hiking. I plan to got on a backpacking trip here in the near future. 
Oh that sounds fun. Which places do you plan to visit?
I'm not entirely sure. I think it would be great to go backpacking or tramping across New Zealand, but that would be a huge time commitment.
New Zealand is an amazing place. I have family members there who I visited once about 20 years ago.
I think it would be really cool to go tramping across that country. I'd have to make sure to bring wet-weather gear in my backpack. I hear it can rain unexpectedly.
Yes, it can be pretty wet, especially in the South Island. It can also get very cold too in winter.
and as a result is nicknamed the "mainland" of New Zealand, especially by South Island residents, but only 23 percent of New Zealand's million inhabitants live there. In the early stages of European (Pākehā) settlement of the country, the South Island had the majority of the European population and wealth due to the 1860s gold rushes. The North Island population overtook the South in the early 20th century, with 56 percent of the population living in the North in 1911, and the drift north of people and businesses
I don't think there's necessarily a story, but there's definitely a theme here. One of my favorite kind of dark jokes is, 'How do you make God laugh? You make a plan.' Nobody ever makes a plan that they're gonna go out and get hit by a car. A plan almost always has a happy ending. Essentially, every plan is a tiny prayer to Father Time. I really like the idea of a plan not being seen as having definite outcomes, but more