February 2013
14 posts
The Search for the Secret Spot
One of my big quests once I get to New Zealand is to go through my mom’s old surf journal (yes, she went to a boys school…there weren’t enough girls for a girls school is the reason she gave, I think) and find all of her secret spots.
Actually, to hear her tell it, she barely went to school at all she was surfing so much! In her journal she mentions a couple of really sweet...
Yum
Salad time with Tita! My stepmom is from the Philippines, and she is a fantastic chef. Here we are making some salads. Yummm avocados!
All Packed Up
Pretty amazing, but after a couple of yard sales, lots of trips to Goodwill, and giving stuff to my best friends, everything I own finally fits into the couple of bags I’m bringing!
Below are a couple of pictures from my last stop in Colorado, my family’s house in Castle Rock. My Dad is lending me a great book to read, and under that is the reading room he and my Stepmom have set up! Totally...
First Stop: Family in Castle Rock
I’ve slept a couple of different places this past month, from my friends Lois and R.W.’s “Bungalow”, a renovated garden shed turned guest house in their beautiful garden, to my amazing boss Suzanne’s house on “The Hill”- with a few random spots in between.
Yesterday I said goodbye to my friends and job in Boulder and headed down South to Castle Rock...
Those aren't chips...
Hello all!
I am moving from Boulder, Colorado to Lake Taupo, New Zealand this week and was encouraged by my pals to start a travel blog documenting my adventures in my other motherland.
I decided to call this blog Fish & Chips because of one of my earliest memories in New Zealand: hanging out at my Grandma’s pub eating fish & chips out of huge greasy newspaper cones.
I...
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