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Day 67 : Returning home Part Two.

Sunday the 13th of February, 2011. Our 67th day started at a the Hawthorn Lounge, a crowded Poker bar in central Wellington.  After pretending to play cards for a while we returned to the Fairlady and made our way to … Continue reading

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Day 62: Loss lies in knowing the way.

Tuesday the 8th of February,2011. 13 days left. This day has been shortlisted for the Limp Celery awards; “When Serendipity Attacks” & “Best 180”. The heavy beating of the rain on our solid roof spoke to us of sensibility and … Continue reading

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Day 36: Night creeping.

Thursday the 13th of Jan (Photos for this post to come.) After taking in our fill of the scenes to be seen yesterday, we had back tracked a short distance to Tapotupotu Bay where we made our home at a … Continue reading

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Day 33: A few rounds with the sea.

Monday the 10th of January, 2011. Today’s destination was Whangarei and we were packed up and heading toward it at a remarkably early and efficient hour.  We didn’t notice the pink sheep in the front paddock when we pulled in … Continue reading

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Day 26: Little Ado About Nothing

Monday the 3rd of Jan Sometimes you need a day of quiet introspection to put events into perspective. This is essentially a fancy way of saying that very little of note was accomplished today; perhaps we were finding our feet … Continue reading

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Day 25: Of boiling mud and falling water.

Sunday the 2nd of Jan 2011 Given that the day before had been so filled with fighting and anger (with some cool falcons in the middle of it) we decided to treat ourselves to ‘going out for breakfast’. The unexpected … Continue reading

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Day 13: Roadside Camping

Stopping in to a local cafe, we finally spent some much needed time clearing up some of the misconceptions we each had to do with the direction of the film.  Much to Aleksis’ amused bewilderment, it was let out that … Continue reading

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Day 11 : Monday the 20th, Part B

We awoke sometime well after noon, still in Belmont Park, thankfully. Skillfully conducting the daily ritual of Trailer Packing, we were ready to head out, so we piled into the car. Then, Andis and I promptly piled back out of … Continue reading

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Day 12: Two days in One

On Monday the 20th at 2am under intermittent drizzle, I sat in a carpark making a short black for our soundie Aleksis.  Feeling so spoilt after our amazing stay in Blenheim, we had initially decided to just stay up all … Continue reading

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Day 3 : What is that noise?

Day 3 : What is that noise? Today was the first day the team could sit a moment and plug in the laptop to recap the trip so far. However, the ability to do this was the silver lining to … Continue reading

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