Posted in Travel, new zealand on December 29th, 2003 No Comments »
We’ve been home from vacation a little over a week now. I’ve just now finished uploading my journal of the trip. I tried to keep it as current as possible. I’m sure it has numerous spelling and gramatical errors. Maybe at some point in the future I will go back and […]
Posted in Writing, new zealand on December 18th, 2003 1 Comment »
What started out smoothly morphed into a fiasco. Our return trip was planned out and, if executed smoothly, would have put us home and in our fuzzy slippers by the evening news. Unfortunately things went amiss.
We all checked out and got our luggage loaded into the taxi by ten. The first leg […]
Posted in Travel, new zealand on December 17th, 2003 1 Comment »
The longest day begins. We took the ferry from Nelson to Wellington today. IÂ’ve never been on such a large boat before. The seas were a bit violent but you could barely feel it. I spent most of the transit time reading and “resting my eyes”. I knew it was […]
Posted in General on December 16th, 2003 1 Comment »
Most of the group went on a helicopter ride today, leaving Dena and I to do some shopping. We picked up some souvenirs and scratched our heads at how the economy here is different. For goods produced here, the price seems to be fairly comparable to back home. For imported goods, however, […]
Posted in General on December 15th, 2003 1 Comment »
As we were waking up at the Blue Seas Motel this morning we first heard the news about the capture of Saddam Hussein. It was interesting to see the locals take on the news. It managed a front-page blurb in one of the newspapers, but just barely. It was a short, single […]
