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Posts from ‘June, 2007’

last full day in Auckland

Just a short update as I’m on an Internet cafe sort of thing and have limited time. I’ll post the update I wrote yesterday later in the week.
Driving on the other side of the road and the car, one has to ignore *every* instinct one has and do exactly the opposite. I got us to [...]

first full day in Auckland

Written on and regarding Saturday, June 16, 2007; posted June 18, 2007 @ 5:06 PM
We completely slept in this morning. We were in bed by 8:00 last night and asleep by about 8:30. Both of us woke up at about 4:00 in the morning. I stayed awake for quite a long time before falling back [...]

in Auckland!

We’re here! We were a little sweaty and grimy and had spinning heads for the first part of the day, but by almost 5:00 PM, we’re feeling pretty good.
We landed at 5:30, were in the Customs line for over an hour, and finally had a little breakfast in our bellies and our rental car by, [...]

ugly trout

The cliché says that “trout don’t live in ugly places.”
And it may be true that an ugly fly might be beautiful to a trout.
But in a stunning example that God must have a sense of humor, it seems that sometimes a trout can turn ugly.

I’ll stick to the smaller and more beautiful trout of the Sierra [...]