This morning our tour forms up. Six participants, two guides. I suspect that all are wondering who we will be. The book I brought along on the trip is "Saving Fish from Drowning" by Amy Tan. I was looking for a good trip book and this seemed perfect ... the story of a woman of Chinese descent living in San Francisco who organizes a tour of China and Burma with 11 of her friends. Unfortunately, she is mysteriously killed before the trip. The friends end up going anyway, and disaster follows as each acts according to his or her own reality, which conflicts not only with their fellow travellers' realities but, with even greater consequences, the cultures within which they are travelling. Lovely book (the word "lovely" is used far more in NZ than at home), and I was long overdue to read one of Amy Tan's books.
Today is cool and rainy, and expected to be rainier where we're headed. We cross the island (about 4 and a half hours), then do a bit of hiking on the west coast. Over the next few days we'll make our way down the coast, including a day of kayaking.
I updated yesterday's post with a little more detail. Not sure when I'll have Internet access next.
Cheers!
2 comments:
Don't know how much election news you get. DFL has strong majority in both state houses (1st woman speaker of MN house), though Pawlenty was reelected. All other state offices were DFL. South Dakota rejected the abortion ban. It will clearly be a democratic US House, with the senate still in doubt.
VA went Democratic, so that's a majority in both houses. Woo-hoo! And Rumsfeld is out too.
Hope you are enjoying your tour. Post more pictures when you can, I loved seeing where you had been. Still can't get over how far away you are!!
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