i slept in 8 different beds in the past 10 days.
we hostel hopped our nights and stayed at places
ranging from an 'all men's dorm,' remote country farmhouses,
tropical paradise french hostels and hippo lodges
with smelly barely clothed foreign men.

after a warm welcome, the owner of the farmhouse gave us a depressing lecture about new zealand farmers.
then he invited us to watch a sheep shearing contest on tv.
he has thousands of sheep and cows and a jack russel terrier mix named josh.