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| Boracay Sunset |
January
2005
Dear family and friends,
Hello
everyone. This is the fourth winter in a row in which I have headed to the
Southern Hemisphere as an escape from Vancouver/Savary winters. Again this year
I will be recording some of my travel thoughts and experiences. These
scribblings will, in turn, end up plugging your inboxes, even the inboxes of
those of you that I haven't heard from in awhile. I hope they are of some
interest. Anyway, as always, I spent a minimum amount of time planning my trip
and I am ever late in booking flights. However, when I headed back to Savary in
mid December, I noted some graffiti in the men's washroom at Earl's Cove. A
series of astutely observant weathermen had recorded the following conditions:
Oct. 13 wet and foggy
Oct. 23 cold & scary
Nov. 3 wet
Nov. 6 raining
Nov. 24 snowing
Dec. 2 f***ing cold
Dec. 7 pissin' rain
Hey,
I didn't just fall off a turnip truck. On reading that, particularly "cold
and scary", I pretty much knew it was time to book my flights and get away.
When I got to Savary, I did just that, booking a flight to New Zealand with a stop in Manila
on the way there, and a stop in Kuala
Lumpur on the way back. The general area, Southeast
Asia, and New Zealand, were
easy choices given I will have a chance to connect with Lorraine
in Auckland for a few days on her way back from Australia. I
have never been to New
Zealand and it has crept up my list of
places to go as it is unfailingly raved about by all who have visited there. Other
details of my trip are to be decided as I go, but I hope to visit some of the
eastern Indonesian islands and possibly Papua New Guinea.
