Big Plans

Big news!  Some onward plans have been made from New Zealand and on the morning of July 5th I will be heading to Sydney.  One night in Sydney and the following afternoon onto Darwin (on the north shore in the middle of Oz).  Then on July 11th I fly to Singapore, and on the 14th of July it is on to Jakarta, Indonesia.  Indonesia will be the next place that I plan on staying a month or so.  This should be a cool adventure as I know very little about Indonesia, but have heard some good stuff.  You can get a good Pacific Island experience and see the culture without heaps of tourists.

So the reason all this is happening now, is that on Sunday, the winter program here at earthwise ends.  From there Nico and I had 3 choices.  If we come back to help out Jon for the spring program, we could use the van and work on organic farms or get a job for the next 10 weeks until the beginning of the program.  Option 2 is to not come back to Earthwise and wander about NZ trying to find work, but with no vehicle or home base.  We finally decided on option 3: leave the country all together.  It would have been pretty expensive to stay in NZ and wander and we decided that it was just time to move on.  This is closer to the original plan of spending 4-6 months in NZ.  In the past week we've decided on all three options and then changed our minds.  But now we have flights purchased and it gonna happen!  I am getting really excited to experience another culture and see some totally new stuff.

On a different note, we finally got the needed supplies to move on with the cabins.  In about a day and a half of everyone going hard, we've got all the walls up and a roof on one of the cabins already.  Most of the work figuring everything out and making the walls and bases I had already done myself.  Now it is cool to work with other people and see it really come up.  I'll post again on this soon and add some picts and stuff.

Peace.