Vegetable Markets

The Lower Hutt vegetable markets are on every Saturday morning. I went along with my camera and along they way came up with a couple of great ideas for photography essays. In the meantime I caught these photos.

Puppy love

My good friend Anna looks after her Mums managrie of animals whenever they go away. I've taken to hanging out with gorgeous posse of critters. After work on the last day of the working year we had a few beverages and I gotten down on the floor with the animals. After being licked to death they got bored of me and I got some very sweet photos.

Check out these gorgeous puppies - Ruger, Poppy and Chester - along with their long suffering cat friend - Barclay.

Itinerary

I'm working on my trip itinerary at the moment. I have all my flights, tours and accommodation booked and paid for. Now to find day tours and determine the best deals for transport and entertainment in each city. In particular I'm doing San Francisco and Los Angeles by myself, so any suggestions would be appreciated.

In the meantime I hope to get an itinerary together so you can all keep track of where I am each day. Jealous much?!

Testing . . .

Hi folks,

It's been awhile since I posted on my blog. Life's busy I guess. Tonight I'm testing out how easy it is to use blogger on my iPad. So far so good. It's pretty easy so far. Not feeling the keys give way under the pressure of my press is a little odd, but I'm pleased with how natural it does feel despite of that. I'm also able to touch type a lot better than I had thought.

If I was you I'd be thinking who cares. Well, the whole reason I bought an iPad in the first place was to so that I have a much more realistic portable device to take travelling with me, that I can use to not only store all the thousands of photos that I'm bound to take, but also so that I can write home and put up blog posts of my trip.

In June 2013 I'm finally going on the trip that I've been planning since I was a teenager. My friends Tracy and Candy are getting married in Rarotonga. After a week of sun and fun with my friends, I'm flying to the USA and Canada. I'll be spending 8 weeks travelling around the countries, seeing and doing as much as I can. I'm really looking forward to it and to sharing all the adventures with you via this blog.

I hope to share more of the planning and details with you as the time gets closer. So stay tuned!

Don't panic, this photo has nothing to do with anything, I just want to see how easy it is to load a photo from here :)