Eleni left a blog comment saying that she was eating Kiwis. This is not likely, unless she’s become a cannibal in my absence, in which case I wish she would stop. Kiwis don’t like it when you confuse them with the fruit, which Eleni used to call “kee-wahee-fwoot.” Did you know that kiwis (the bird) have their nostrils at the very end of their long beaks? When they’re rooting in the dirt for food they […]
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Rotten Eggs
I’m not going to write much today. Mostly I’ll just give you captions for my pictures. Last night for dinner I ate blue nose, a kind of deep-sea fish. Today on the way out of Taupo we stopped at Huka Falls, “the most visited natural attraction in New Zealand,” for which reason I’d not been looking forward to seeing it. It was amazing. It’s where the wide Waikato River, as it departs Lake Taupo, narrows […]
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I discovered that there is one thing that Palmerston North is really good for: sleeping. I did so long and soundly last night. It’s a hard place to find your way out of, and we were glad finally to see it in our rearview. Today’s journey was from Palmy to Taupo. Along the way we had a coffee in Taihape, which I told you about already. It’s “the gumboot capital of the world.” At their […]
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I dreamed last night that Mom needed to repaint her house and had been sold on a new kind of product she asked me to apply for her. The first layer was color. Then I had to get a sprayer and coat all the surfaces—ceilings, walls and even the carpets—with a special adhesive liquid containing uncooked rice and popcorn seeds. Afterwards we had to turn the furnace up. It had seemed like such a good […]
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