I created this website as a pet project but mostly so that family and friends could keep up with what was going on with my travels through New Zealand. For the most part, I think it worked pretty well. It’s funny how the “blog speak” tends to come and go. Sometimes I can ramble on with the best of them in a light-hearted fashion, but other times weeks go by and I hardly have anything to say.

I’ve been back from New Zealand for over a year now (which is strange to say) and I still have the blog intact. Maybe part of me doesn’t want to quite give up the online journal. Who knows who still reads it. Maybe no one, but there is something comforting in knowing that it will forever exist in some capacity in this wonderful thing we call cyberspace.

These days I’m exploring a new area, known as New York. I’d been here many times before and actually probably saw more in my visits as a tourist than I’ve had the opportunity to see while I’ve lived here. I get more of a local flavor these days, which includes a lot of fabulous restaurants - all the more reason that I need to get that gym membership.

I read the idea once, that we shouldn’t refer to such a characteristic as a ‘travel bug’ because that given the impression that there is a cure. I don’t want a cure, if there were such a thing.