http://promisetovisit.com/blog Give up the luxuries of subway travel and move to New Zealand like us. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:46:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our campervan trip around NZ is now over a year and a half behind us, and we found ourselves in serious need of a reminder of how beautiful this country can be (besides the usual 1-hour radius around Auckland). So a few weekends back we packed some snacks, hopped in ... http://promisetovisit.com/blog/2008/08/26/a-surfers-weekend-away/ As noted in our last post, the weather has been total crap here over the last month. Yes it's winter, but it seems worse than last year. Anyway, the NZ International Film Festival just rolled through for a few weeks and we managed to catch considerably more films than we ... http://promisetovisit.com/blog/2008/08/02/nz-international-film-festival/ It's not my term, it's what the New Zealand Herald is calling this weekend's severe weather that has taken the northern island, ahem, by storm. Quite a wild time so far. We're getting near hurricane strength winds of 130 km/h (or 80 miles/hour) and one place even recorded it at ... http://promisetovisit.com/blog/2008/07/26/its-a-weather-bomb/ Somehow, I just don't think this would fly in the States... Kaimai School Possum and Bunny Shoot Kaimai School Possum and Bunny Shoot, Bay of Plenty, 20 July 2008 Please come and support Kaimai School, and help to raise funds to buy some more IT equipment, at this truly rural event. . . ... http://promisetovisit.com/blog/2008/07/17/only-in-nz/ I saw that it made it up to $4.18 a gallon in the States recently. Blah. We did the math and we paid $8.72 a gallon today. $74 to fill up an 8.25 gallon tank. If only we had an Air Force here, we could do our part for cheap petrol. http://promisetovisit.com/blog/2008/07/13/stop-whining-about-gas/ Donovan, a good friend of ours, reminded us about how unbelievably and unforgettably delicious the Samoas Girl Scout Cookies are. Yet for some reason while we were in Samoa, we totally forgot about Samoas. And while we sadly never found the Samoas factory, we did find unbelievable sunsets, some great ... http://promisetovisit.com/blog/2008/07/08/samoa-yes-samoas-no/ This week in Cannes, France the annual Cannes Advertising Festival, the most coveted awards competition in the industry, took place. Our agency pulled a decent chunk of hardware back. Although nothing I worked on made the cut (There's always next year), I still had my minor moment in the spotlight. ... http://promisetovisit.com/blog/2008/06/21/431/ 5 days to go! We're off to Sunny Samoa for a week of zero electricity, zero cooking, zero work, zero private space, and we can't wait. We've reserved a beach Fale, which is literally a thatched hut on the beach where the walls roll up like blinds. The bed is on ... http://promisetovisit.com/blog/2008/06/16/countdown-to-samoa/ I know this won't apply to most people out there, but we've just built a kick-@$$ screen saver for the Toyota Hilux. It reacts to how you tilt/move your laptop, which only MacBook laptops can recognize so far. For those who have yet to convert, here's a link to the ... http://promisetovisit.com/blog/2008/06/11/macbook-pro-coolness/ Tiny Dancer is a household staple here, meaning that anytime it happens to come on the radio, iTunes, iPod, or any other means of Elton projection, it invariably gets blasted to 11. I don't mind too much because I can see how much it takes Angela back to that moment ... http://promisetovisit.com/blog/2008/05/31/sir-elton/