Monday, February 10, 2025

Review: Sea-to-Summit Spark Ultralight Down Bag

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 For this year's New Zealand trip, I decided that the 0 degree REI bag was much too warm for the inside of a New Zealand hut, even for X...
Friday, February 07, 2025

2024 New Zealand: December 28th - Manapouri Hut to Queenstown

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We woke up at the late hour of 7am, ate a leisurely breakfast, got rid of all our food, and then stuffed the now much fuller garbage bag in...
Thursday, February 06, 2025

Review: Digital Minimalism

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 Digital Minimalism was on sale for $2, so I picked it up since even when Cal Newport is being pedantic and paternalistic, he still occasio...
Wednesday, February 05, 2025

New Zealand 2024: December 27th - Iris Burn Hut to Manapouri Hut

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We woke up late enough that several other parties had already left the hut and gotten going. One exception was a party that had an injured h...
Tuesday, February 04, 2025

2024 New Zealand: December 26th - Luxmore Hut to Iris Burn Hut

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 I woke up in the morning discovering that I’d slept 10 hours! I guess the jet lag had finally caught up with me! By all accounts the secon...
Monday, February 03, 2025

Review: Keep Sharp

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 My wife checked out Keep Sharp from the library and it showed up on my Kindle, so I ended up reading it as a palate cleanser.  I remember ...
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Friday, January 31, 2025

2024 New Zealand: December 25th - Te Anau to Luxmore Hut

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 We got up early and by putting my carryon in the big luggage we managed to get everything into the car after breakfast. We drove out to th...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Review: The Chaos Balance

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 The Chaos Balance is the 7th book in the Recluce series, and a direct sequel to Fall of Angels , which I loved. The main character is the ...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

2024 New Zealand: December 24th - Twizel to Te Anau

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 We woke up to dry weather and clear skies, and to my relief most of the laundry we’d hung up to dry had dried overnight.  Leaving Twizel, w...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

2024 New Zealand: Sealy Tarn and Tasman Glacier Viewpoint

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It didn’t rain very much but it was windy by the time we got up. The last time I was in Mt Cook National Park, I’d hike to Red Tarn Lakes i...
Monday, January 27, 2025

2024-2025 Fiji and New Zealand Index Page

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 For the winter break in 2024-2025 we decided to get a second summer by visiting Fiji and New Zealand. We got in many days of hiking (trampi...
Friday, January 24, 2025

New Zealand 2024: December 22nd - Geraldine to Twizel

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We woke up early enough to have a decent breakfast before driving off to the supermarket for some last minute purchases before we drove to o...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Review: Fall of Angels

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 Fall of Angels might very well be my favorite book of the Recluce series so far. The explanation lies in a quote from the protagonist 63% ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

2024 New Zealand: December 21st - Nadi to Christchurch to Geraldine

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We got up at 4:45am for a 5:00am for the 8:00am flight for Christchurch, but while waiting for the the pickup I checked my phone and there w...