Reading and Roaming
NOVEMBER MOOD If you live in a true temperate climate, like I did growing up, you might say that the months have personalities. Personalities influenced by the weather and the holidays. In November, in upstate New York, it got dark early and then earlier and earlier. And it was cold. Often the first significant snowfall …
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RE-ENTRY I’ve been back home just a week. My head is still lingering over some distant ocean, and the time in New Zealand becoming a memory. The four weeks seemed longer, and now I’m trying to process all that we saw and did. Probably two things stand out from everything else: 1) it’s an incredibly …
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NEW ZEALAND VIEWS Our time here is almost over, and it seems appropriate to gather together some of my favorite photos from the trip. Note: All photos ©JWFarrington (some rights reserved.)
IN ARROWTOWN We drove from Manapouri on Wednesday, after our overnight cruise on Doubtful Sound, to Arrowtown, which is about half an hour from Queenstown. It wasn’t a long drive, but it rained much of the way and the last 45 minutes or so were on the now familiar narrow, winding roads around the mountains. …
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