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 thick column of smoke, lighting up the smashed windows and shards of glass in an...
View ArticleAll-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 seat belts) upon arriving in Aotearoa is rugby. The game...
View ArticleSpiritual 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 is, the potential of the world, and the Maori spiritual...
View ArticleNew 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 fresh, new and different. And, quite frequently, everything...
View ArticleBack 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, rising sun back-lighting the clouds. Our geology mobile, a...
View ArticleTo 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 to Auckland, the most vibrant and enticing city for my...
View ArticleThe 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. All well and good. But the true heart of New...
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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 mountains and coast that’s been gouged by glaciers,...
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