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the last hurrah

I don’t really have time to do this past week justice.  I’m not sure that it would be possible, in fact, to do it justice.  It’s been that good.  But if I don’t write it now, it will never get written, and if nothing else, the pictures that go with this particular episode need a story.  It [...]

c-o-l-d

It is winter here.  I haven’t seen any snowfall yet, only crusty, frosty piles on the sunless southern sides of mountains and on the tops of the larger peaks I see in the distance, but it is winter, unmistakably.  The tourists have gone home, the towns look closed-down and nearly devoid of life.  Trees have shed [...]

i met a possum!

I’ve been in the Westland (aka the rainforest) for about a week and a half now, and have been having incredible luck with the weather. Lovely sunny days and astounding clear skies at night. The moon is full tonight, but because the days are so short this time of year (sunrise 7:30, sunset 5:00), the [...]

keas and slivovica

Arthur’s Pass – the town at the highest elevation in NZ, and about a kilometer away from the mountain pass of the same name. I spent three frosty, cold (but fantastic) days camping for free next to the Bealey River, cooking on my tiny little Trangia stove, and shooing the noisy keas away from Dr. [...]

back by popular demand

I know, I know, you haven’t heard from me in ages.  Am I alive?  Am I well?  Have I gone round the twist or fallen off the face of the earth?  Yes.  Yes.  Not really, and no.  Rather, I’ve been sucked into the routine and life that is Lake Tekapo and the Godley Resort.  Time [...]