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By Lucy One thing I forgot to add in my last post; I dropped one of my gloves on the hot exhaust for the bike and burned a big hole in it. Oops! I wake with a start in the middle of the night. This room doesn’t look familiar, it’s too dark, I can’t see!…
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By Lucy I hate all of this stuff. The arbitrary change from one calendar year to another means nothing, it’s just a way humans have decided to measure time. But Ti posted in the group chat that she wanted to do some New Years meditation stuff – it is also a new moon, after all.…
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By Lucy I was prepared for 8 kilometers of gravel road. I was not prepared for 8 kilometers of sandy road, but I’d come too far to give up now. And I had no back-up plan; I couldn’t go back to Queenstown this late in the day. Every time the bike wobbled, I wrenched it…
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By Lucy The curtains at this hostel suck. They do not keep out the morning sun. Up and dressed again, out for breakfast. I wandered down to the Octagon to find the only place that was open for breakfast, Perc’s. I got the sad, lonely table at the back next to the toilet and ordered…
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By Lucy Well, the time had come and there was no denying it anymore. The first thing I did Thursday was call Paul and have a panic attack. What if I forgot something, what if I got lost, what if the bike broke down, what if my load became unsecured. My biggest concern, actually, is…
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By Lucy I have arrived at my next jobsite! Things are hectic, but I will update the blog as soon as I am able.
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By Lucy I meant to include something in my last post about following the path Raureka forged over the mountains, changing the balance of power amongst the Maori for 200 years. What I didn’t realize, although it’s obvious in hindsight, is that Arthur’s Pass wasn’t the original trail she blazed. It’s too steep to be…
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By Lucy Back to normalcy, or what passes for it for me. Waking up, having breakfast alone in my cabin, going out to feed the chickens even though it’s my day off. I thought it was raining hard, but it was barely misting, and the light rain was accumulating on the tree branches and dripping…
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By Lucy I tossed and turned all night. What to pack, what if I forgot something, all the things I would have done if I had known I’d be gone for the week, like laundry. I only had one pair of clean pants and 2 clean shirts, although thankfully I had 5 pairs of clean…
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By Lucy Sorry for the delay in this post! You’ll soon see why. My fridge froze itself open. I noticed it a few days ago, and tried pushing it shut with a log. No dice. Once there was enough ice on the ice box to hold it open, it kept drawing in moisture and growing.…
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