Glad I could influence my little sister to donate grey hairs to Pops the way Colin and I have for 2 1/2 decades...
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Thursday, June 23, 2005
New Zealand Pics
Got some pics up finally of New Zealand. Family trip, so beware the gratuitous posed shots. Hope you like 'em.
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Whirlwind tours
Quick update to promise a proper one:
Family is here, rotating between hugs and strangling each other (ahh, if we didn't love each other so much we couldn't push each others buttons so well!)
In Queenstown, a little but beautiful hiking, 4x4 tours, great food, and going on a helicopter to Milford Sound tomorrow! Traveling in luxury is awesome, but I know I definitely prefer 2 months in hostels to 2 weeks in 5 stars.
Heading up to Wellington on Thursday for a long weekend and then Auckland to say goodbye as Dad and Audrey leave for the US (By the way we started the trip with about 5 days there already). Something tells me I won't have the opportunity to take a deep breath, think, and write about their visit until then. (Commentary about how American travel? You better believe it.)
The visit is wonderful to say the least, it's so fantastic to share this place and what I've learned in the past 5 months.
I'm getting more comfortable with the idea of work here in NZ. Know I'll be here for at least a year, longer if I love it. What more could I want then to have a job in a beautiful foreign country that I only have to keep if love it...
Oh wait, life lesson #257: You only have to keep the jobs you love in the places you love - the world provides plenty of other options.
Don't know what I'll do if I land the Antarctica gig come October, but I cross that bridge when I get there.
Lastly, I leave on the 27th to meet my sister Whitney in Bangkok. Only a week there, a few days in Singapore, and then she'll spend about a month with me in NZ. I'll have to work during the week, but something tells me July will prove a pretty damn fine month nonetheless.
Okay, there's my not so short catch up, promise something worth reading soon -- and photos from a Helicopter, whoo hoo!
Family is here, rotating between hugs and strangling each other (ahh, if we didn't love each other so much we couldn't push each others buttons so well!)
In Queenstown, a little but beautiful hiking, 4x4 tours, great food, and going on a helicopter to Milford Sound tomorrow! Traveling in luxury is awesome, but I know I definitely prefer 2 months in hostels to 2 weeks in 5 stars.
Heading up to Wellington on Thursday for a long weekend and then Auckland to say goodbye as Dad and Audrey leave for the US (By the way we started the trip with about 5 days there already). Something tells me I won't have the opportunity to take a deep breath, think, and write about their visit until then. (Commentary about how American travel? You better believe it.)
The visit is wonderful to say the least, it's so fantastic to share this place and what I've learned in the past 5 months.
I'm getting more comfortable with the idea of work here in NZ. Know I'll be here for at least a year, longer if I love it. What more could I want then to have a job in a beautiful foreign country that I only have to keep if love it...
Oh wait, life lesson #257: You only have to keep the jobs you love in the places you love - the world provides plenty of other options.
Don't know what I'll do if I land the Antarctica gig come October, but I cross that bridge when I get there.
Lastly, I leave on the 27th to meet my sister Whitney in Bangkok. Only a week there, a few days in Singapore, and then she'll spend about a month with me in NZ. I'll have to work during the week, but something tells me July will prove a pretty damn fine month nonetheless.
Okay, there's my not so short catch up, promise something worth reading soon -- and photos from a Helicopter, whoo hoo!
Thursday, June 09, 2005
A whole new wave of panic/excitment
I'm not sure if I am more excited or frightened, but I landed a pretty damn good job here in New Zealand - IT consultant for a company called Intergen in Wellington. This at the same time as my Dad and sister Audrey arriving to travel, and Whitney's visit around the corner.
A job measured in years not months. Stop my trip, immigrate to a foreign country, renewed missing of friends, 4 weeks holiday, 40 hour work weeks, local access to worldclass sailing, snowboarding, and mountain biking - the thoughts are still swirling around like a blender in my head. When I get a moment to think I put something reasonable down.
Excited, scared, thrilled, frightened.... this might take a couple days to settle into. (start date July 12 so I've got time)
A job measured in years not months. Stop my trip, immigrate to a foreign country, renewed missing of friends, 4 weeks holiday, 40 hour work weeks, local access to worldclass sailing, snowboarding, and mountain biking - the thoughts are still swirling around like a blender in my head. When I get a moment to think I put something reasonable down.
Excited, scared, thrilled, frightened.... this might take a couple days to settle into. (start date July 12 so I've got time)
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Holy hell the world is small!
Yesterday I got new roommates (a couple) with whom questioning went like this:
Me: Are you guys from North America?
The Girl: US
Me: Where?
The Girl: Texas
Me: I'm from Austin!
The Girl: So are we!
So these guys, Ali and Mike (the 2nd and 3rd Texans I've met in 5 months - all three from Austin) and I went to dinner and drinks and through conversation get this:
In 7th grade I went to Camp Longhorn and was in the same cabin with Mike, a cabin of 12 boys! So then of course we end up as roommates by chance again, 14 years later in Auckland, New Zealand.
I love how small the world is.
Me: Are you guys from North America?
The Girl: US
Me: Where?
The Girl: Texas
Me: I'm from Austin!
The Girl: So are we!
So these guys, Ali and Mike (the 2nd and 3rd Texans I've met in 5 months - all three from Austin) and I went to dinner and drinks and through conversation get this:
In 7th grade I went to Camp Longhorn and was in the same cabin with Mike, a cabin of 12 boys! So then of course we end up as roommates by chance again, 14 years later in Auckland, New Zealand.
I love how small the world is.
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