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A blog about travel, parenting, education, and more.
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Hi! I'm from a small island near Seattle, WA moving to a small town in the Far North of New Zealand for a year. I'll be blogging about our family's adventures as expats and curious world citizens.
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Taranaki
Taranaki Posted on 11/05/2013

(Image via Wikimedia Commons) After a lovely couple of days in Hamilton, we drove south to the Taranaki area, which is the big western bight on the North Island. After getting settled in...   Read more
Waitomo
Waitomo Posted on 07/05/2013

Chances are, you’ve seen photos of the stunning glow worm caves in Waitomo. Since they don’t usually allow cameras for the glow worms’ sake, when we took the cave tour we...   Read more
Hamilton Gardens
Hamilton Gardens Posted on 06/05/2013

Hamilton is a beautiful city built on the fertile plain of the Waikato River. We spent an afternoon strolling, lunching, and strolling some more at the Hamilton Gardens. Several times I...   Read more
Chance encounters in a small land
Chance encounters in a small land Posted on 06/05/2013

New Zealand is a small country, slender enough that right now the whole country is being pummeled by a single storm system, the rain slicing out of the swollen sky and trees lurching around...   Read more
Swimming with Dolphins
Swimming with Dolphins Posted on 05/05/2013

I’ve wanted to see wild dolphins for a long time. It turned from a fancy to a yearning some time during the past year, and the whole time we’ve been here I’ve scanned the...   Read more
Cow, Cape Reinga Redux, Fantail
Cow, Cape Reinga Redux, Fantail Posted on 27/04/2013

We’ve been filling the days this week with Northland day excursions for D. and K. We’ve had gorgeous weather and great times together. This cow with bear-cub ears was outside...   Read more
A visit from Grandma and Grandpa
A visit from Grandma and Grandpa Posted on 22/04/2013

The best thing about having visitors is seeing everything through their eyes; the days of preparation beforehand shot through with flashes of new perspective, the much-anticipated safe...   Read more
Glad Rags
Glad Rags Posted on 10/04/2013

Due to a happy confluence of stubbornness and uncharacteristic fiscal restraint on my part, we’ve spent the last nine months largely in the same clothes we packed into suitcases to...   Read more
Happy 15th to my K
Happy 15th to my K Posted on 07/04/2013

Fifteen years ago I gave birth to my first child after a long labor and a forceps delivery. I remember the feeling that morning when I held my healthy, beautiful daughter for the first...   Read more
Happy Easter Weekend!
Happy Easter Weekend! Posted on 31/03/2013

My moveable type is made of kowhai pods. S, B, A, and I spent some time down at our beach yesterday making a fort, toe-toe grass carpet, and other fancy stuff. B looks like a quintessential...   Read more
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