Oops.
While attempting to find the information centre in Whangarei, I stumbled across the largest collection of clocks in the Southern Hemisphere. Psh, you think your adrenaline just shot up? I was there folks. And it turns out the information centre and the gigantic clock museum are essentially the same thing.
Could you imagine this being the backdrop to your daily life? I think I'd bug out. Nobody needs that much of a reminder that life is constantly moving forward.
And for the life of me, I can't decide if that's an amazing way to be remembered or a pretty lame exit. I tell you, the clock museum really made me think a lot.
A Buddhist stupa.
So. It's been an interesting time in Auckland: cubicles, pubs, small king's ransoms in bus fare, Samoan gangsters, killer bugs, fish&chips binges, and many many precious memories. But I've logged some time for the resume and its time to drop everything but the essentials into storage and start exploring New Zealand in proper backpacking fashion.
It's not going completely free fall yet. Monday through the end of February, I'm going to be living at a Buddhist retreat centre in Coromandel, working 4 hours a day for them in exchange for a room. That's going to be the height of New Zealand summer, and I'm pretty stoked to be filling it with chill Buddhists, surfing, bush hikes, and life far far away from a Westfield mall.
This is the end of the blog then, but I'll still be checking my internet a couple times a week. I feel anybody who reads this already knows my e-mail address, but just in case: shulman.nathan@gmail.com. Pretty simple. And of course there's always facebook. Life abroad pushes the love over the hate of that website for me , so its a pretty effective way to get in touch.
I'm back stateside in early May. Let's meet up.
How rad is that.
