Well I apologise frends, a packed schedule and limited internet availability meant my burning man odyssey never made it to the www. However, I've been stationary in my home city of Perth for 5 whole months working and making on eo fthose career thingies the other kids have and prepping myself for a little 2 week jaunt into the land of the long white cloud Aotearoa or New Zealand.
I've been here for 2 days. having departed Perth on the good ol' red eye flight we hit Sydney at the lovely time of 6am Thusrday morning. After dragging our sad butts about the airport for a while we found a nice quiet bit of carpet and as I am finding is becomming a travel tradition, curled up on the airport floor with a shirt on my head and had a snoozington. 2 hours later we awoke bleary eyed to the amusment of the Sydney airport staff who were arriving for work.
A few more hours were wiled away and eventually we made it to check in onto an Aerolinas Argetinas flight to NZ. Now, my delightful mummy booked these flights and didn't really do her research so was not to know that Aerolinas Argentinas is South Americas most budget airline, and has a rather sturdy reputation for letting their planes fall abruptly out of the sky. Also, we found ourselves seated next to not one but two new born babies. Ohh it wasn't looking good for the likes of us. But would you believe it? That delightful plane of ours stayed airbourne for all the time it was planned to and those babies chuckled and gurgled hapilly the entire peaceful way! The gods of travel had smiled upon us and our journey was christened with a grand beggining. We had touched down in Aukland and our friend Maree was there to meet us.
Maree met my mummy in Thusrday Island and these two adventurous nursing gals had bunked down together during the Queensland floods last year. Thus forming a life-long bond of friendship that included the delightful perk of free-visiting accomodation - which even extended to close family such as daughters. So Maree whisked us up to her super groovy home designed and built tree house in Whangarei about 2.5 hours drive north of Aukland.
We promptly drank a cuppa ate some diviiine pecan pie and passed out.
the next day Maree and her husband ian took off to work and mummy and I entertained grand plans of exploring the sights of Whangarei. Infact what we did was lounge about in a couple of hammocks for the better part of the day reading our books and marvelling at the views. Maree came home and we went exploring on foot for a bit before tramping out to the local pub for some grub.
I've been here for 2 days. having departed Perth on the good ol' red eye flight we hit Sydney at the lovely time of 6am Thusrday morning. After dragging our sad butts about the airport for a while we found a nice quiet bit of carpet and as I am finding is becomming a travel tradition, curled up on the airport floor with a shirt on my head and had a snoozington. 2 hours later we awoke bleary eyed to the amusment of the Sydney airport staff who were arriving for work.
A few more hours were wiled away and eventually we made it to check in onto an Aerolinas Argetinas flight to NZ. Now, my delightful mummy booked these flights and didn't really do her research so was not to know that Aerolinas Argentinas is South Americas most budget airline, and has a rather sturdy reputation for letting their planes fall abruptly out of the sky. Also, we found ourselves seated next to not one but two new born babies. Ohh it wasn't looking good for the likes of us. But would you believe it? That delightful plane of ours stayed airbourne for all the time it was planned to and those babies chuckled and gurgled hapilly the entire peaceful way! The gods of travel had smiled upon us and our journey was christened with a grand beggining. We had touched down in Aukland and our friend Maree was there to meet us.
Maree met my mummy in Thusrday Island and these two adventurous nursing gals had bunked down together during the Queensland floods last year. Thus forming a life-long bond of friendship that included the delightful perk of free-visiting accomodation - which even extended to close family such as daughters. So Maree whisked us up to her super groovy home designed and built tree house in Whangarei about 2.5 hours drive north of Aukland.
We promptly drank a cuppa ate some diviiine pecan pie and passed out.
That looks like a great place for a house!
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