Category: Up side Down

The downside to Wanaka life. An important story for the rest of the tale. The upside will follow in a next episode.

Settled in Wanaka, needing a job. My bank account was drained from my “luxurious” life on campgrounds on the north. Not make concessions on my choices of dinner, I remember making a red wine lamb stew in the back of my van. And off course I had lost the van …

High above clouds descending into the valley to set foot on the soil of Queenstown. Shopping for new gear, a tent and sleeping bag life is different without the van. Listening to the troubadour, warm in the sun on a bed of grass for the hands of time to point …

Then another story begins, I had signed myself up for a vipassana. A meditation in a group not to speak a word for 10 days. The retreat being just an hour out of Auckland I started the drive from Turangi. In the middle lane on the Auckland city highway entering …

Little plan on where to go next I followed the shores of the west to visit Waitomo and it’s renowned caves. Floating on the mild current in the depths of the earth. My eyes register the thousands of little lights. Glow-worms all around me a trip in wonderland. Clueless driving …

Rain pouring down in the grey city New Plymouth I ask myself “what am I doing here?” The forecast tells me it will clear but I had no desire to stick around. I came here to climb the damn thing now I had to stay and wait. I found a …

After a life by the book of dutch culture I can now look back with gratitude, having explored the other side of my world. I had leveled up in the bussyness of life to have achieved the dream, well the dutch dream that is. The house, the “fancy”car, the girl …