Service Interruption...Sorry

Dear Readers--the half dozen we know about and any other odd visitors who have happened to find our blog--it is with great regret that we have to announce that there will be an interruption of blogging on this site, starting tomorrow, Sunday January 17, 2010. We are leaving here at the end of our lease of this storm-tossed glass box apartment at Point Jerningham, where we look out at the whole expanse of Wellington Harbour on one side and Evans Bay on the other. Needless to say, a full gale is currently blowing. (Couldn't resist it, although I swore no more weather reports)

We are heading up the west coast of the North Island with stops at Wanganui, New Plymouth, Raglan--and on the last lap we will arrive in Auckland on Thursday January 21. On the next day we will start a nine day cycle trip: bus to Rotorua and then working our way back to Auckland via the Coromandel Peninsula.

The computer will be packed away; but if we can, we might manage a little time in Internet cafes, just to let you know we are still alive. But we doubt if we will be able to do much. Nevertheless, with two indefatigable digital camera-persons like Joan and me, I have no doubt that, when we get back to Washington on February 2, we will load another extensive set of pictures into the computer and blog away about the cycle trip and our return to the US, which will no doubt start with us being strip-searched before we can get on the plane.

So bear with us...

(Posted by David, with photos by Joan, on Saturday January 16)