A larger post will follow once I get some more time and better internet. However I did go to the beach on Christmas Day.
Then a couple days later I was back!
Looking like I was stranded there.
I was able to get off of that beach and continue south. That tale will be told soon.
Yesterday was Saturday in this part of the world. The be exact it was Saturday December 14th. This was made great by the fact it looked like this:
That bottle you can see in the corner of the shot, that's SUNSCREEN! It was like a great San Diego day, warm, sunny, and breezy.
And with no shortage of meat. BBQ in December is grand.
The local booze hounds were hanging around outside of the brewery down the street from my house.
And nachos here are regularly made with Doritos.
Basically it was a great Saturday. I have high hopes of a few more of these before returning to springtime at home.
As we approach Christmas I realize I've not been doing a good job of keeping up with the blog. Not traveling around has lead to not too many pictures, I see the same thing quite often. However here are a few.
At one point I went to a downhill race.
This was a fun one from work. If you don't take care of your bike bad things can happen. This BB30 crank is no exception.
That's where the bearings were at one point.
I am soon to be featured in a short film about running. A bit of location scouting along a big log.
And found a stick bug in the process as well.
If I want to go home, there is a bus that will take me straight there from downtown Wellington.
Outside of the Nelson airport there is a bike stand to assemble your bike!
This is Gavin, who works at the cafe at iRide, accepting the best biking cafe award from the Wellington bike enthusiast people. There were also a nice variety of snacks at the awards.
But finally, the reason I really think it's almost Christmas is there was a 5 piece brass band from the Salvation Army playing Christmas carols at the grocery store. They must have lost their obnoxious little bells and had to improvise.
Now I'm off to buy some sunscreen for Christmas Day. Someone said it is supposed to be 25. I really hope that's Celsius.
