Our next home was with David, a kind man wanting company. We kept busy doing paintings, baking, and becoming professional farmers. David did not live in your typical house. He resided in what use to be a shearing shed, refurnished to be a home. However the shearing room was still used as a shearing room, doubling as our art studio. Luckily, cleaning floors was really easy there, as he had no windows in the large swinging doors, so when it rained, EVERYTHING got wet. And it rained everyday!
His place was very calming and we soon found ourselves falling in a daily ritual. Painting and baking most of the day, joining David to herd the animals or milk the cow. Everyday I took time from my day to chill with the cows. By the end of our stay I had most of them named and was able to put them all to sleep by playing them some Debussy from my iPod. To say the least- we bonded. Ha
I think it's safe to say Lindsay and I both have the potential to be qualified farmers and farmers wives now.
-LA
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Life gets rough
Perhaps the beginning of adopting mcdonalds as our home, on January 5, we found ourselves sprawled on their couches. Unfortunatly, the Timaru mcdonalds closes at 11, so shortly after, we set out to find a place to pitch our tent. What better place than the park behind mcdonalds?? We headed to the far side of the park, next to the ocean and train tracks. However, after some vehicles pulled in the parking lot and lingered for awhile, left and then the scene repeated with another vehicle, we figured we were in a bad location. 12:30, we unpeg our tent, pick it up (still set up) and carried it over our heads across the park and huddled in right behind mcdonalds (our protector). Lindsay slept with a knife in her hand that night. I slept with chainmail on incase she had a nightmare.
-LA
-LA
Bohemian love huts??
Our first real hitchhiking adventure began on our way to anchorage. After about a 3 minute wait, we were picked up by a couple of guys who were also on their way to do some camping in anchorage. They stopped on the way at a wine and cheese shop, purchasing champagne and some fancy cheese and crackers that we on in the shade of a tree.
We soon found ourselves at our next wwoofing destination- tree crop farms- bohemian love huts and gardens. We did some gardening, housework and some cleaning of the love huts. To say the least, I'm not sure it was always candle wax we were scraping off the surfaces. We didn't last there long, but I must admit, her place was very nicely decorated in a medieval type way, and she fed us very well.
-LA
We soon found ourselves at our next wwoofing destination- tree crop farms- bohemian love huts and gardens. We did some gardening, housework and some cleaning of the love huts. To say the least, I'm not sure it was always candle wax we were scraping off the surfaces. We didn't last there long, but I must admit, her place was very nicely decorated in a medieval type way, and she fed us very well.
-LA
New years
Christmas marked the end of our busing days. We eased into hitchhiking- first by catching a ride with lynn's step sons mates- Jeff, Cheyne, and Jared. They were nice guys who took us to Christchurch and then treated us to dinner and drinks.
Later in the evening we met up with Joe- our Canadian buddy from linda's. We were sharing a flat with him over the weekend courtesy of Linda and Mike.
Our New Years was one we will never forget. Set in, what is called sol square. A back alley that leads to a square full of bars stacked upon eachother. The place was overflowing with people- it could have been out of the movies.
Ofcourse, we had to celebrate Canadian new years as well. To say the least, the weekend was a memorable one.
-LA
Later in the evening we met up with Joe- our Canadian buddy from linda's. We were sharing a flat with him over the weekend courtesy of Linda and Mike.
Our New Years was one we will never forget. Set in, what is called sol square. A back alley that leads to a square full of bars stacked upon eachother. The place was overflowing with people- it could have been out of the movies.
Ofcourse, we had to celebrate Canadian new years as well. To say the least, the weekend was a memorable one.
-LA
Christmas time!
We headed back to Wellington for Christmas. Peter and Del welcomed us into their home to celebrate the season with them. I can promise you, this is the first Christmas that I got a sun burn. It was also the first Christmas that we had fresh berries and vegetables from the garden for dinner. Not to mention the homemade egg nog! A very delightful experience!
~> back to the future
Something about waking up in mcdonalds on valentines day is just uber special. The clock is about to strike 1 and so far, so good.
It's an odd experience sleeping in mcdonalds. Your nose starts to get a bit stuffy. My bet is, it's either from the pop Lindsay mentioned earlier, or what I believe, must be the air. According to my calculations, with every breath of lucious mcdonalds air inhaled, you get approximately 19% of your daily fat intake, 13% of cholesterol, and 4% of your sugars. Not a bad deal I'd say.
Really though, I have gained a higher respect for mcdonalds. Putting all things aside, they have offered us a couch to sleep on when everyone else locks us out, free wifi to keep in contact with fam and friends, and ofcourse, the legendary pig fat on a cone for the great price of only 60 cents. (also commonly known as a soft serve cone) who could complain?
Every company starts out small, they just had the opportunity to expand- not saying I'll stop supporting the local shops, but until I can afford a place to sleep, mcdonalds will be a second home.
-LA
It's an odd experience sleeping in mcdonalds. Your nose starts to get a bit stuffy. My bet is, it's either from the pop Lindsay mentioned earlier, or what I believe, must be the air. According to my calculations, with every breath of lucious mcdonalds air inhaled, you get approximately 19% of your daily fat intake, 13% of cholesterol, and 4% of your sugars. Not a bad deal I'd say.
Really though, I have gained a higher respect for mcdonalds. Putting all things aside, they have offered us a couch to sleep on when everyone else locks us out, free wifi to keep in contact with fam and friends, and ofcourse, the legendary pig fat on a cone for the great price of only 60 cents. (also commonly known as a soft serve cone) who could complain?
Every company starts out small, they just had the opportunity to expand- not saying I'll stop supporting the local shops, but until I can afford a place to sleep, mcdonalds will be a second home.
-LA
Surfwatch
While at the staging post, we were introduced to Lynn, who was to be our second wwoof host. We loved our time in kaikoura with her, husband David, and dog Layla! Our jobs there were slightly less typical.. Including being clowns at the mall, caroling, walking goats and feeding alpapcas! She also took us on trips down to the beach, to see the seals, to the waterfall and in to town to shop! Needless to say, we loved Lynn! She and David alsO taught us some great vegetarian meals. Ever wanting a luxurious stay in kaikoura? Surfwatch all the way!
-Lh
-Lh
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