December 2008
3 posts
Total Overhaul/ The Beginning Starts with the End/...
(Situation: Napier, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. I sit at a poorly decorated Christmas table yet to be dismantled six days after the fact. Across from me are perched two delicious and savory hamburgers which have been there for several hours, untouched. Fighting the urge to consume, I take a decidedly unsavory mouthful of plain yogurt from my mug decorated with farm chickens and write on.)
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the New Zealand Portion of...
Finally I had two days off and I intended to use them to the fullest extent possible. Tired of spending all of my time in Napier, I felt compelled to strike out into an unexplored direction and see what it had to offer. With this in mind I decided to go up to Whakatane (fa-ka-ta-nay in the Maori pronunciation,) a small city on the north coast along the Bay of Plenty. I knew that I’d have...