Souvenirs – our room key from the Grand Chancellor We’re in Christchurch briefly, between flights that will take us on to Auckland later this evening. Have I mentioned how Air […]

Okay, to recap, now that I’m ensconced at an internet cafe with a real keyboard: We were on the outskirts of CHCH when the earthquake hit, with our rain gear, […]

We’re safely in Wanaka with Polie friends. Buying some basics, then on to qtown for the night. Sounds like the Grand Chancellor back in CHCH is about to collapse with […]

A bunch of you have mentioned how much of a pain it is to try to dig back through the Roadtrip archives. There’s no way to read stuff in chronological […]

Saturday morning at 6:00 am – some part of my body tells me that I should be sleeping in. The annoying beep from my watch tells me otherwise. I need […]

The storm must be a metaphor for something here, but it’s not like storms I’m used to. Back in Pittsburgh, a storm meant dark clouds billowing up from over the […]

No one knows how big it’s going to be, but it’s supposed to be a long one, and they’re taking it pretty seriously. They’ve laid a rope line of flags […]

So there I was, stumbling through Highway One (main hallway) of 155 and Q (we’ll call her ‘Q’ to protect her identity) waved me over and asked, with hushed voice […]

Didn’t make it again today. It was even looking likely at times. Despite the lousy weather, and despite the transport time marching steadily later through the day. When they finally […]

Today was an awesome day. Got up early and tromped around the base. Rumor from the would-be Polies who’d been stuck here for two weeks was that they were going […]