フィジーWestern DivisionSaunakaVunitogotogo Creek17°46’36” S 177°26’8” E
2013年10月12日, フィジー ⋅ 🌙 22 °C
In October 2013, I traveled to New Zealand to explore the possibility of moving back there to live. In the end, I didn't because the job I thought was going to eventuate never happened.
There was toもっと詳しく
ニュージーランドWellingtonLambton Harbour41°17’11” S 174°46’35” E 2013年10月15日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
I took an overnight bus from Auckland to Wellington. It was raining like crazy when we got to the bottom half of the North Island, and my gear got soaked!
For the first week, I house-and-cat sat forもっと詳しく
ニュージーランドWellingtonLambton Harbour41°17’11” S 174°46’35” E
2013年10月17日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Even back in the '90s when I lived and worked in Wellington, it had a great reputation for good locally roasted coffee. Herewith, some of the Signs of the Grinds that I snapped pictures of.
ニュージーランドWellingtonLower Hutt CityEpuni41°12’33” S 174°54’29” E
2013年11月3日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
One of the tenants on the commercial floor of the St. George was the NZ Brass Band Association, and I had become interested in Sousa's tour of NZ back in the 1910s, with the view to perhapsもっと詳しく
ニュージーランドWellingtonLambton Harbour41°17’8” S 174°47’9” E
2013年11月9日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Because NZ traces its Pakeha heritage to Britain, it celebrates the 5th of November as Guy Fawkes Night. When I was a kid, everyone used to have fireworks and a bonfire on that night. But, because theもっと詳しく
2013年11月13日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
I took the bus north to my hometown to visit my sister, brother, and a niece and her son, who all still live there, for a few days. There happened to be a gypsy traveller encampment across the streetもっと詳しく
ニュージーランドWellingtonWellington CitySeatoun HeightsWorser Bay41°18’21” S 174°49’25” E
2013年11月17日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
When we got back to Wellngton, my niece and her husband took me to visit the Weta Workshop and to the Te Papa National Museum.
You can go on a tour of the actual workshop, plus there is a littleもっと詳しく
ニュージーランドWellingtonWellington CityPipitea41°16’23” S 174°47’9” E
2013年11月20日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
The Cake Tin is the name of a sports stadium that was built in the late '90s in Wellington. It hosts all manner of events besides sports, but the main sport played there is NZ's national game, rugby.もっと詳しく
ニュージーランドWellingtonLambton Harbour41°17’11” S 174°46’35” E 2013年12月5日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
The day before I was to leave Wellington to return (eventually) to Oakland, CA, who should I see in the street but a Raiders supporter!
But before I left, I had some final catching up to do withもっと詳しく
ニュージーランドManawatu-WanganuiRuapehu DistrictOhakuneMangateitei39°25’5” S 175°23’55” E
2013年12月6日, ニュージーランド ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
The Northern Explorer is a scenic train trip that travels from Wellington up to Auckland. I went as far as Te Rapa, the station for Hamilton, where my brother and sister-in-law came to pick me up as Iもっと詳しく
