The brassy brassica was celebrating 10 days on the road, in the same clothes, and more than $2500 in his pocket.
Mr Page, who is also known as Jesse, left Auckland on July 12 headed for his hometown Dunedin in order to raise funds for a six-month journey to Spain, where he will learn to teach meditation.
He will give 10% of the money raised to the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust.
Mr Page is one of four New Zealanders heading to the continent to learn to teach meditation, but the only one who dressed as a vegetable to raise funds to get there.
"People take life so seriously. I thought if I can make fun of myself and come up with something other people can get a laugh at, then why not?"
He admitted he had some odd reactions and surprised looks as he made his way around the country - like the "old seadog" in Picton who said, "Look at what the tide has dragged in."
The longest he had to wait for a ride was 30 minutes in Kaikoura. The rest of the time people were more than happy to pick up the cabbage, even as it started to wilt in the final few days.
His outfit was made of foam and a tent outer, his green face paint was smeared on every day, his glasses without lenses were to make him look like an "intelligent cabbage", and his umbrella, well, that just became part of the costume over time.
Mr Page was met in Dunedin by family and friends, who all knew him well enough to know he would carry through with such a crazy idea.
"If I can make one person smile, it was all worthwhile," he said.
