Bye-bye!

I’m not sure how much time I’ll have to post between now and Thursday when we depart for New Zealand, so I thought I’d say a quick good-bye today.

We’ve been planning this trip for a long time, since last April actually. I’m looking forward to a lot of things: getting a break from the daily grind, meeting new people, and riding bikes every day through a totally foreign landscape.

Speaking of foreign, one of my yoga teachers, George, told me yesterday about a bird native to New Zealand, called a Kea (pictured above). Often referred to as New Zealand’s “cheeky mountain parrot,” they apparently like to attack to the plastic and rubber parts on motor vehicles (e.g. wipers, vinyl and windshield wipers). I’d really like to see some while we’re there; I just hope they don’t have a taste for bike tires and carbon fiber derailleurs.

We’ll be gone for almost three weeks, so I’ll try posting a bit along the way. In the mean time, if you find this site a little slower than usual, it may just be that we have limited access to the Internet...or maybe we’re off bungee jumping...or hiking along the upper reaches of the Franz Joseph glacier...or?

Ah, vacation!

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