Searching for Karori

As you can see it's hills, hills and more hills once you leave down town Wellington. I did not understand this concept until I decided to walk to Karori. Looking at the map of Wellington I was foolish to think that it would be an easy hike. Well I was horribly wrong. On the map all the streets look innocent and flat. When you trek out from the city some streets go up while others go down. The hills can be very long and steep. Hiking up the huge hills I was happy to explore the land by foot and see new towns and suburbs. But my hike seem to go on forever. When I left the city it was sunny and bright and 1 hour out of the downtown area it started to rain. Determined to get there by foot I continued on my journey. 2 hours and 15 minutes later I reached the street in which the potential house was on. I looked at the numbers on the house closest to me, 38 was the house number. The house I needed to get to was 1024. I looked up the hill and it seemed to grow before my eyes. I called the lady and told her I had found a place. It was too far from downtown and I didn't want to spend another second hiking up another hill. So it was off to the closest bus stop and fork out the $3 for a busride home.