Trav's Travels

On Wednesday, August 20th Cheeseman held the "Accountants vs Lawyers" race and from there we continued into the next week. On ...

On Monday, August 18th I went to town and sold my motorcycle. The next night I was back up on the mountain in time for the ski weekers...

For two days following Wednesday, August 13th I did my duties, including my weekly drive to town, and did as much skiing as I had time f...

On Sunday, August 10th we returned to the mountain for opening day. The next day we had a blizzard and the following day we had a staff ...

For the first few days in August I camped out at Chamberlains Ford and used the nearby library in Lincoln to kill some time writing. On M...

On Saturday, July 26th I took off on a two to three hour road trip to Sylvia Flats Hot Pools in Lewis Pass. Unfortunately, I got such a l...

On Thursday, July 10th I returned to Christchurch and found that Arthur was on holiday. So we decided to go mountain biking at Bottle Lak...

On Saturday, July 5th one of our ski patrol had an accident and had to be flown out. Two days later we were told to leave the mountain un...

On Friday, June 20th I moved on from Dunners to Christchurch - about a seven hour ride! After essentially spending the whole day in a win...

On Saturday, May 10th I met up with Aaron from Waikanei, got pizza and went up Mt Victoria.For the next week and a bit I got back to work...

On Tuesday, April 22nd my group won the final quiz night and came in second overall. On Saturday we all had a going away potluck and, fi...

On Thursday, April 17 I went to shoot some pool at the pub with Sheldon, Triston and Adrian. Afterward we found that the wind had done some ...

On Tuesday, April 8th we had another quiz night and, a few days later, I visited Stu and Mariska (friends from Cheeseman) in Te Anau. The ne...

On Monday, March 31st I went to Doubtful Sound again. This time I went with Megan and Angela for a day cruise with Go Orange. We saw peng...

On Monday, March 17th I returned to Milford for the Bridge to Bar run - an event put on for St Patties. After running at an uneven pace I ma...

On Friday, March 7th we had another movie night with a Mexican theme. A week later, I flew into Queenstown and spent a couple days hanging...

On Monday, January 20th I went out on a pilot boat for a cruise ship transfer. Milford Sound is often visited by large ocean liners comin...

On Sunday, January 19th I went out on the Pride (Southern Discoveries) for a cruise and to try their buffet. At one point a lady took a w...

On Wednesday, January 8th I was returning from a camping trip and my sump/oil plug fell out. All my oil drained from my bike and I ended ...

On Thursday, December 28th a Penguin wandered onto the wharf and on the 29th Will showed us how to butcher deer. That night Adrian t...