The Overlander was TRH's first train ride. It was only six cars long and bright blue. It turned out to be both a fun and educational ride, as each landmark or point of interest we passed was accompanied by a brief explanation from the conductor. It was a twelve hour train ride, and while it felt like twelve hours, it did not feel especially long, ( Read more... )

We spent two nights in Auckland ( Read more... )

For those who would like to know, The Red Head and I are now safely in Auckland. The Red Head (hereafter known as TRH) really had a rather easy time getting here. There was a brief delay of our first flight, which threatened to make a mess of the whole trip, but the delay turned out to only be 30 minutes, and our pilot flew like an old person and ( Read more... )

In an effort to lighten my load and prepare to change countries twice in three months I decided to get rid of some clothing. This sadly meant getting rid of three pairs of jeans, two suits, more than half my socks, two pairs of shoes and my top hat. Though the top hat was lovingly passed on to its true soul mate, so thats not too bad ( Read more... )

Seeing as how the Large Hardon Collider has, I'm assuming, failed so far to blow us up I am still worried. We could explode at any time!! ANY TIME! Due to the equally paranoid people at my old comic book shop a website has been brought to my attention. Have we blown up yet? Go here to find out ( Read more... )

... especially when you can't rent a truck because your license expired soon after you left the country. This is balls.

So to all my friends and loved ones who have travelled ever; have you or someone you know, in their experiences stumbled upon a good website or otherwise cheap place that I can get a plane ticket? There has to be some way to get to New Zealand for less than $1200.... Any help would be appreciated. I'll bring you back a hunk of the Shire.

So I just wrapped on two films. Neat huh? They were two indy films shot at the same time, as the stories overlap. There is still three weekends of filming, but not for a few weeks. These films came complete with real actors, and an actual director. There was even equipment of various sorts; boom mics, lighting, wardrobe... it was amazing. The ( Read more... )

I just received my approval email for my work visa for New Zealand. It wasn't hard to get and there wasn't really much question of acceptance, but its still nice to have it.

So school is done. Its been done for a while now, but I'm just starting to realize that I have some extra time on my hands. After a couple months straight of at least 12 hours days moving to having entire days off is still a bit strange. On the whole school was quite amazing. It was full of good people both inside and out of my program. One of ( Read more... )