I've been procrastinating from blogging, and I realize the main reason is that I just didn't want to have to write this post, because it has the last of my car trouble detailed in it and I'm just so over talking about my car! But again, it needs to be written, so here I am. To remind you where we left off, my last known whereabouts were the ( Read more... )

Remember how I said you couldn't get into the driver's side of the Mazda with the key? Well the panelbeater fished a piece of a broken key out, and then I could open it if I caught the key just right on the last remaining tooth of the door lock (someone must have used a screwdriver to break into it at some point, because the lock was very loose ( Read more... )

Back home, I am part of a photography club that puts on an annual slideshow event called Photofusion. It's become so popular that it is now held over two separate evenings. Members put themed pictures together with music to present to the public, and last year, I had great fun creating two shows (one with photos of my horse and I taken by one of ( Read more... )

I'm working on some more photos, but for the time being, here are some poor-quality videos from my webcam that I recorded while driving from Fox Glacier to Franz Joseph, a super-windy road that you'll just have to drive yourself one day to believe. I taped the webcam to the dash, but it moved around a bit and as you can imagine, I was not in a ( Read more... )