Dispatches from Middle Earth
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Walking the Great Walk: The Kepler
In the southwest corner of the New Zealand’s south island lies Fiordland. It’s the southernmost nob of the Southern Alps, a waterlogged region of...
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The North Remembers
Today, it is the South Island that attracts most of New Zealand's wide-eyed adventure enthusiasts. It hosts the best bungee jumping, skiing and hiking....
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To see everything sometimes is to see nothing
By the time this entry is published, I'll most likely be on a ferry headed toward Wellington — New Zealand's capital—and, all due respect...
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Back to the Cretaceous at the Catlins
It was like I imagined the rolling green hills of the English countryside, just after dawn. Skies cold patchy blue behind a marine layer,...
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New Zealand is not Utopia, but that's ok
I have now been living in New Zealand for six weeks. Yet, for me, and my fellow international students in Dunedin everything still feels...
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Spiritual Science
Before the earth, before the sun and the moon there was nothing but Io—a genderless, parentless energy dancing within the void. Io was, and...
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All-Blacks All the Time
The first thing one notices (aside from the familiar faces of Elijah Wood and Peter Jackson telling Air New Zealand passengers to fasten their...
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Welcome to Castle Street
In the middle of the road, a ratty old couch bursts into flames. The fire leaps into the night sky and sends off a...
