Not about the destination

July 2 nd Sunday morning. I have now been away from home for 2 weeks and 2 days. If this trip was planned, ain't no way I would have planned it as well as it panned out. All i knew for certain was entry date, exit date and that i wanted to catch the second test. Armed with just that information, my bags, passport, bank cards, cellphone and laptop i was just too eager to accept whatever the days ahead had in store. The journey started in Auckland, littered with a whole lot of fortuitous yet random encounters that would direct my journey. Drove through a lot of the North Island and seen some spectacular places, Tauranga, Mt. Maunganui, Rotorua, Lake Taupo, Hamilton, Raglan, Wellington. Flown down south and had a similar experience. Dunedin, Wanaka, Queenstown, Arrowtown, Mt Cook, Lake Pukaki, Lake Tekepo, Christchurch. I’d met some people I hadn’t seen in a while and some that I have seen more recently. I was propositioned in a bar. I met a few people I hadn’t met before. I go...

Flight to #Wellington was over in a blink of an eye, coming in to land i got a glimpse of the #CakeTin #Wespac stadium to my right. I am not particularly a fan of live concerts or watching games at the stadium, but it was always on the list to watch the #AllBlacks play a test in #NewZealand. If not the #WorldCup, the #LionsSeries is the next best thing i'd say. The only test i wanted to catch was the second one. I thought this would be the one. Someone would more than likely win the first and thus there would be a scrap for the second. When I landed dear Jo was there to fetch me. Bless her! I was staying in a place called #Kandallah with my good friend John Carolin's sister and her family, Nick, Hannah and little Farah. Proper styling pad on the hill overlooking the town and the stadium. We had a good catch up, drank some wine and i turned in for the night, after doing some work of course. Before going to bed i hopped onto the Book of Faces and saw that my mate Brooks was he...

Monday 26 June, MOER it's frosty this morning, a bit concerned re: the roads, but a weather check tells me it should be fine from 10am. Bags were already packed from the day before, so I check out of my lovely apartment, load up my trusted steed South and off we go. Destination Christchurch in 2 days. The distances and the roads down south are very different from up north, you can drive for many a minute before you come across another car and even further before you come across a filling station so best you make sure you fill up before you journey on especially if you dont know where you are heading. But cows and sheep decorate the landscape most frequently. My first stop enroute was #MountCook or #Aoraki. From afar you see it, this decapitated hill. Decapitated because in 1991 there was a huge rockfall/landslide that shaved a good couple of meters from the top. It was a little over an hour's detour from the path to Geraldine, but it was part of the plan to go there, so i de...