Light to Night
Singapore continues its love affair with projecting art onto the side of its public buildings. They call these projections “light skins,” and the latest bunch are coming to us courtesy […]
Monthly Archives: January 2018
Birthday From Hell (Literally)
It’s not every day that you walk home from school and find yourself being offered three lollipops by the embodiment of a 3-year-old-messenger to the gods. But that’s the sort […]
Harbour Day
Almost all flights from New Zealand to Singapore make a stop somewhere in Australia, so Prescott and I took advantage of the layover on our return flight to spend a […]
The Very Highest Point
The highest mountain in New Zealand is the awkwardly-named Aoraki/Mt. Cook, which sits in the Southern Alps in the middle of Aoraki/Mt. Cook National Park. The name is a compromise […]
Badlands
Driving through New Zealand’s grazing landscape often feels like being in the western US — specifically, the broad northern stretch of the West between the Dakotas and the area east […]
Rob Roy Glacier
In the many South Island hiking blogs I’ve skimmed, at least two cite the Rob Roy Glacier Track as their favorite day hike. That seemed more than enough reason to […]
Wandering Around Wanaka
Though we loved our breakfast at Joe’s Garage, where the wait staff was easygoing and fun, we were so disenchanted with Queenstown that we decided to leave early. Our trip […]
Snow in Summer
After the Fellowship of the Ring lost Gandalf in the Mines of Moria, they rested briefly at Dimrill Dale. In the movie, this scene was filmed at Lake Alta, an […]
Getting to Our Alpine Retreat
We’ve driven inland, coming up into the mountainous center of New Zealand’s South Island. The road took us past Lake Aviemore, part of the enormous Waitaki hydroelectric setup. This series […]
The Whitestone City
The town of Oamaru, population 14,000), lies along the South Island’s coast. We went there so that we would have fun things do if it rained (though we’re learning that […]
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