A year on from Jacinda Ardern announcing the first COVID lockdown and we’re still in the midst of COVID. So much has changed but there’s so far still to go. The next year’s questions look to revolve around vaccination and when we might leave NZ again.
Whanau – a Māori word now in common general usage. To me it has connotations of a broad concept of family, beyond the sense of a traditional western nuclear approach.
Why are people so reluctant to accept endings? Everything eventually need to end to make room for the new, bike trips, ideas and organisations alike.
The concept of chewable chunks applies to COVID as much as cycle touring. Here are our strategies for breaking a 1300km cycle tour into chunks of a size we can cope with.
Cycling and cycle touring are two of my all time favourite activities. I don’t remember a time when I didn’t love cycling.
Two trampers were found in northwest Nelson after being lost for a week. Did they have a map and compass? Media made a big fuss about the surviving with very little food. But why couldn’t they find their way home?
Post-lockdown we left Gibbston for Christchurch and we’ve been surfing. Life feels great – a new sport, new people, no tourists like those who clogged Queenstown post-COVID.
Humans are more adaptable than they think they are. When travelling, wherever I am, what’s happening quickly starts to seem normal. This makes sense as living in a constant state of stress would be impossible. Will COVID start to feel normal soon?
Already we’re moving into a Level 4 lockdown. That was a quick honeymoon period. Now we can watch cases rise while staying home; we won’t get on the Our World in Data COVID graph till we reach 100.
