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  • The way is shut

    The way is shut

    Lake Ferry – Our Mount Doom hike has been scuttled, because the Tongariro crossing is in permanent nastiness, weather-wise, for the next several days. This has left a rather gaping crater in our final week in New Zealand. We’ve ended up in Lake Ferry – a bleak stretch of sand out near the pinnacles, where…

  • Entr’acte – The Story of Demetre and the Angry Seal

    Entr’acte – The Story of Demetre and the Angry Seal

    Wellington, on a 2-day furlough from the Larger Adventure As A Whole – Once upon a time, there was a man named Demetre, who wanted to punch a seal in the face. I do not know why this obscene lust dwelled in him, but to look in Demetre’s eyes was to know the True Terror.…