Monthly Archives: July 2012

Type A

Tonight’s our last night in New Zealand, and we spent the day doing a bus tour of the Christchurch CBD Red Zone and driving around the eastern suburbs, of which more in another blog post, because it was frankly too emotionally … Continue reading

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Home Again

Flying back from Massachusetts to New Zealand convinced me that one of the reasons I’ve taken two years to do so is that it is a very long way by anyone’s standards. (Almost precisely 10,000 miles, in fact, which is a … Continue reading

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The Fourth

We spent the Fourth of July in New York, as Mike had to work down there the day before and after. I enjoy it as a holiday because it’s so quantitatively different to Waitangi Day as a national celebration, i.e., … Continue reading

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A Fishy Perspective

I’ve been spending most of the last couple of weeks running around like a headless chicken trying to get everything in order for our long-awaited trip home (nine days and counting!). In particular, due to visa renewals and other assorted … Continue reading

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