American Politics

I have been quite amused watching the American political situation lately, in fact all of the countries that I have any interest in at the moment have been through or are going through interesting elections within the space of a few months. Canada just had one, they spent millions and nothing changed. New Zealand is [...]

The last days

When I was around 8 we went on a family holiday to the South Island, from that trip the things I remember are that the people we stayed with in Dunedin lived one block over from the steepest hill in the world, I also remember that we went to some industrial site and played around [...]

Crater Lake

Crater lake is one of the most beautiful places I have been. I had heard good things and seen some pictures but when you first walk to the edge of the crater and look in, it is one of those wow moments – kind of a similar feeling to when I walked to the edge [...]

Smith Rock

First stop on our Oregon trip was to Smith Rock. There we met up with Jamie and Hill on Saturday morning and had until Tuesday to get to know the area. This place is apparently known as the birthplace of sport climbing and it is full of fun, though while there is a lot of sport [...]

Oregon is nice

Well it has been a while and I have so much to say and so much to show the world via my blog. Honestly, my life is pretty cool sometimes – most of the time really.
Last week Kirsty and I took our first long holiday in quite a while. We went to Oregon where we [...]

Where am I?

Hi there
In response to my brother in laws concerns: I am away from my computer right now, I will be returning sometime in the next few days but may be otherwise occupied with an assignment I have due on Thursday.
But when I do return I should have some interesting posts and some good pictures as [...]