NEW ZEALAND | Monday, 19 Feb 2007 | Views [421]
Hello, all! I have an address (deep voice of Hollywoods rendition of God should be resonating in your head right now, as these simple words are imbued w/ the pretentious importance of an overly dramatic movie trailer guy. This address is im9portant ... Read more >
Tags: Markets
NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 14 Feb 2007 | Views [376]
Dustin--fellow employee of Sealord, from Nelson, who nonchalantly mentioned he's taking a round-the-world trip next year (this is fairly normal for NZers, called an overseas expedition, or OE). When we eagerly questoined where he was heading, he mentioned ... Read more >
Tags: People
NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 14 Feb 2007 | Views [371]
happy Valentine's Day! Today (if they're not snowed under in Indianapolis) my sister Stephanie is supposed tofind out if she's having a boy or a girl--exciting stuff! it's tough to be so far away for such important events at home, but it's worth it ... Read more >
Tags: Work
NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 6 Feb 2007 | Views [317]
Hello! Things are looking much better than when last I wrote, complaining, complaining, complaining. We finally have jobs, that started yesterday @ a most unfortunate time, as it was half time w/ the Colts on their way to winning hte Superbowl, when ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 2 Feb 2007 | Views [389]
aarrgghhh! this computer is so slow & it's giving me problems & internet is so expensive here in Nelson. anyway, wrote this last night, by glow of the streetlight while in "bed" in our van--I want a job. I want a chocolate chip cookie ... Read more >
Tags: Budgets & money
NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 26 Jan 2007 | Views [327]
what to say? wasn't expecting to get on the net just now. are currently in Nelson, just left our last wwoofing place. Actually, helped Cat, one of the previous wwoofing host's daughters (24 yrs old) housesit, on our private beach, where we watched ... Read more >
Tags: Budgets & money
NEW ZEALAND | Thursday, 18 Jan 2007 | Views [429]
it's been a bit difficult to get on the internet lately, as I'm living out in the boondocks, somewhere that it's faster to get to town via boat than car, in the northernmost point on the S. island, a 3-hr drive to town (2 hrs for 50k alone, very windy ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 7 Jan 2007 | Views [432]
yet again, where are the beautiful people? Liz & I spent over an hour sitting on a pedestrian street in Wellington (2nd largest city, teh capitol of NZ, for crying out loud!), & watched lots of people w/ below-average attractiveness walk by.... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
NEW ZEALAND | Monday, 1 Jan 2007 | Views [582]
Oh-so-scary bathrooms Have I already written about this? I can’t seem to remember…. Have you ever had to use a bathroom that had automatic doors? In order to enter Havelock North’s public restrooms, you must push a green ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 29 Dec 2006 | Views [377]
There’s something…integral, primal, refreshing, more natural, uplifting, romantic (can’t quite find the right word)…about clothes/laundry drying on a line, the image of clothes flapping on a sunny day. (though they don’t dry as quickly, esp on rainy ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 29 Dec 2006 | Views [378]
You're the best of the best. You're good people. (said to the lizzes)--Owen I have an easy job for you. –Supervisor Owen It is 6:00. It's time to get up. --Owen's 3rd cell phone alarm, in a computerized woman's voice ... Read more >
Tags: Friends
NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 20 Dec 2006 | Photo Gallery
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NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 20 Dec 2006 | Views [637]
If I were Bill Bryson, I’d pontificate upon my fears & the dangers to my person due to whitewater rafting Class V rapids, indicating that I would or did barely survive signing the waiver form (much, much shorter than its American counterpart, ... Read more >
Tags: Adrenaline
NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 15 Dec 2006 | Views [403]
we stopped work @ the vineyard last Sat, did 4 days of WWOOFing at a 750-acre Anne-of-Green-Gables farm (quite tranquil & lovely, really) where we weeded the garden, ate fresh lettuce & milk from the cow, & scrubbed some pool tiles. also, ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 12 Dec 2006 | Views [354]
ok, ok, this is getting out of control, but it's my journal, too! and, now that you've read about the cast of characters, perhaps this will make more sense. I like to be on top of anything. --Doster It was too clean for me. --Allan, fellow hostel ... Read more >
Tags: People
NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 12 Dec 2006 | Views [430]
what an absolute inundation of info about my trip, eh? well, here's some more, this time just Impressions of Auckland/New Zealand AKL, though the largest city in NZ w/ ~ 1 million people, is still extremely casual. In fact, you can't even tell the ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 12 Dec 2006 | Views [438]
here's a bit about the people we've run into thus far. Gary--a "special" (so described by Chinese/incognito lady, who claims the Chinese should not be judged by him) Chinese guy who insists on feeding us & who has quite set old-school, ... Read more >
Tags: People
NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 9 Dec 2006 | Views [336]
oh, God, I tried vegemite for the first time this morning, it was disgusting! I'd thought for sure that people were just exaggerating that the stuff was nasty, thinking, it might be a good alternative for all the peanut butter Liz & I've been eating, ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 5 Dec 2006 | Views [417]
Hello, one & all! How goes it in the U.S.? it's hard for me to think of everyone @ home in the Christmas season, gearing up in winter, snow, boots, all that stuff. Instead, I'm in springtime, w/ erratic weather patterns, & very little Christmas-... Read more >
Tags: Work
NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 28 Nov 2006 | Views [1121]
obviously, there is always much to talk about when you've been traveling; I'll have to limit myself, since the library is about to close, thus booting me off the interet (unlike in the U.S., you have to pay to use the internet @ the library, in NZ, along ... Read more >
Tags: Sightseeing
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