I’m one island in on my two island journey through New Zealand. Yesterday morning I boarded the ferry in Wellington and made my way to Nelson via Picton.

New Zealand is beautiful. Every turn you make on the road yields some great surprise. The food is good: lamb kebabs and steak for me. The weather has been good: sunshine at all the good moments. The sites, of course, are amazing. I’ve posted some pictures to Flickr, so you should be able to see them to the right. Here’s one of my favorite camera-phone pics:

What is it? Why, it’s Hobbiton before sunset from the bottoms of the hill (which means Bag End is topside).

Time flies, and I’m really glad that I took this trip. It’s an interesting way to make yourself fully present, for sure.