Well Mom and I are now in Te Anau. Tomorrow at 9:45am we board the bus that takes us to Te Anau Downs where we catch out boat across to the beginning of the Track. I’m super excited! I really enjoyed doing the Routeburn Track 7 years ago (even though I...

Back in Queenstown today. In some ways it’s changed so much and in some ways it’s completely the same. Brings back memories of being 19 and running around with gang - getting into mischief. I had a lot of really great times here and had some really...

Another thing I’ve learned, just go with your gut. If you have a bad feeling about getting your hair cut & dyed by the neighbour maybe you should go with that – although in her defense she did do a good job aside from the whole gray hair thing if she...

Today I learned not to let your bogun neighbour who ‘used to be a hairdresser’ dye your hair because it might just turn out a wonderful blue grey shade that makes you look like you just went in for the good ol’ granny blue rinse. You might want to...

Well I think I’ve kind of figured out how to spend the rest of my time here in my temporarily adopted home away from home. Mostly working. At the airport which is pretty cool in it’s own right, especially for a backpacker. Then come the end of May say...