Back in Auckland last night and tonight for a one-day laundry, internet, exercise, and comfort stopover.
The drive down from the far north yesterday was long, through increasing concentrations of civilization, the ultra-hip crowd at the Victoria Super Market, the car noise in Auckland, the flat taste of all the food.
It seems quite clear to me […]
We’ve been musing about our belongings and wondering if they’re having a nice time sailing the ocean seas. We’d also been wondering if we’d ever see our things in the timeframe promised.
After a quick email to our shipper, Allied International, I got confirmation that our container did not make it onto the Pacific Link as […]
I’ve gotten more clarity after day seven at Mara Whenua: Start from the way you want to schedule your time which for me is at most four hours of work on stuff that needs to be done, then work my way up to perhaps four hours of exercise, leaving four to eight hours for reading, […]
So, what was it really like WWOOFing? I thought I’d carry on a bit from Bruce’s previous post and outline for you all what our typical day looked like for the last week.
7:30 – 8:00 am: Wake up. Step outside to the nearest tree for a pee. Light the small gas cooker we had outside […]
This is our fifth day at Mara Whenua (MAY-ra FAY-new-a, roughly “permaculture” in Maori), a 400 acre farm in a secluded valley in the far north of New Zealand. After just a short chat on the phone with Yvonne (EVE-on; there is much more accenting of the first syllable of words here than in the […]