Category: Life in General
Day-to-day life, nothing important or connected to something or somewhere specific.
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The Te Araroa is calling.
Time to go back and finish this thing, BUT, yes BUT the weather is starting to play a significant role now that winter is closing in and the daylight hours are getting shorter. This means river levels will start to rise, snow will start falling on the peaks and…
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Please don’t hold your breath.
I bought an instrument (yeah!), After a late lunch with a dear friend of mine, I stopped by at a music shop today and purchased a musical instrument. It was always a dream of mine to be able to play the double bass before I turned 40. So in…
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“Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young”.
Going back to 1997, the Chicago Tribune published a hypothetical graduation speech written by Mary Schmich, The original article is [here] if you would like to have a read for yourself but I heard it for the first time as a song by Baz Luhrmann – Everybody’s Free (to…
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Rakaia River to Arthur’s Pass – Day 44/47.
While the bad weather continues, So continuing on from yesterday’s post, it does seem like I am running a little “late” on the trail and winter might be arriving earlier than I had hoped. I decided NOT to redo the following section of the TA as well, since I…