September, 2005

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Sep 05

Pictures!

I’ve finally posted some pictures from my trip. There are only a few though. A lot of them are from I went on a Hike through the Tongariro Crossing while taking a break from snowboarding. Some of them aren’t very flattering either. Haha. Anyway I’ll get more uploaded once I find a place with a decent upload rate. I can’t sit around for 3 hours uploading pictures.

Adios.

Link to the gallery.

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Sep 05

Finally

Well it took me almost a week but the fact that I’m here has finally sunk in. Shock, Panic, Denial, Remorse… all those feelings you never really want to feel. All experienced in rapid succession (not necessarily in that order). I’ve decided that I’m not ready to start working right away. It’s going to make things a little more difficult, but why the hell would I rush back into a job? I have this great opportunity, I’m in a far away land with 1000′s of things to do. Why restrict that activity to Weekends and after work? No job is as flexible as I want it to be, so I just wont work for awhile. A month, maybe two… maybe even three if I’m careful.

Hostelling is interesting. Everyone here pretends to know exactly what they’re doing but nobody has a fucking clue. Everyone wanders aimlessly. The problem I have is that there are too many options – What do I want to do today? Anything! I think that’s what’s scary : Not having a routine.
Auckland
Im not saying that I want one, but when you’ve spent around 20 years with one you start to go into submission.
I’m not saying I’m over it.
Hardly.
I’m just saying that its good to embrace the fear of the unknown.
Once you purge your routine, you realize what your real desires are.
What do you truly want? I honestly still have no idea (with one exception)

I sort of hesitated when I thought about writing all this, but fuck.
It’s time to go exploring.

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Sep 05

I Made it.

Flight

Well I got to Auckland in one piece. After spending the last 30 hours or so on the road, I’ve finally managed to get the other side of the fucking planet. What the hell am I doing here agian? Haha. I managed to get some pretty interesting pictures from the plane. I was pretty lucky with regards to travelling. On my flight from LAX to Auckland I had a window seat and all 3 seats in my row to myself. Meant I could sleep lying down instead of sitting, and I think that made all the difference. I’m still jet-lagged to hell though. I have no idea what time it is back in San Francisco now, let alone Ontario. The picture up top was taken while on my flight from Oakland to LAX. That bright spot in the middle is Mars I believe. It’s a planet anyway. ;)
I only spent about 45 minutes in LA, but one thing I can say about it, is that words don’t do it justice. It’s fucking ginormous. Auckland was warm today, but other than that I have no idea what my plans are for tomorrow. I can’t see this screen properly let alone think about planning an entire day.
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