Liz here:
Most of you know this by now, but Jen and I are back in Michigan. We got back about a week ago, after a two-hour flight from Queenstown to Auckland, a night spent sprawled on benches in the Auckland airport, a four hour flight to Melbourne (in Australia), a four-hour layover in the Melbourne airport, a fourteen hour flight to Los Angeles, a long layover in L.A., and then a five hour flight to Detroit. Whew. It takes DAYS to travel around the world.
We were supposed to come home April 5th, originally, but our money was steadily disappearing, and when good ol' Achilles' brakes spectacularly caught fire driving down the mountain into Queenstown's valley, we decided to make an end with NZ before we were entirely broke. We spent a few days exploring Queenstown (which is gorgeous), making our travel plans, searching out Mexican food, and watching some seriously top-notch street performance. And then we came home.
I gained a lot of insights from my time in New Zealand. I learned more about how other people work - and about my own mind, and desires, and needs. (I also learned how to make the shit out of a bed and carry a full tray of wineglasses.) There were some depressing, miserable lows. There were some long days where we didn't think about anything but work. There were some long days cooped up in a miniature, loud, smoking car with four other (usually gassy) people. And then there were those exuberant, joyful, perfectly beautiful highs.
I'm working on writing some essays about some experiences in NZ; I might post them here when I'm finished, so keep checking back in the next few weeks. In the meantime, I hope to see all of you and do some story-sharing in PERSON, for the first time in months.
Much love, and thanks for reading -
Liz Dengate
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