"Make your next choice, be your best choice"
From the moment our eyes open in the morning, to the instant they thankfully close shop at the end of the waking hours, thousands of little choices pulse through our minds, all with the very real ability to alter the outcome of our lives. Although unlike the Choose Your Own Adventure kids books (LOVED those growing up) we aren't able to see what woulda, coulda, shoulda happened if we chose differently - we must simply do it.
So with that, some choices of my own are being made to help put a backdrop to The Year of Passion. A stage of sorts that will naturally serve up opportunities, experiences and those intangible moments of understanding, realization and growth that only travel can produce - and to be honest, a place I know very little about. I can say that it is the birthplace of my dear ol' Pops, the current home of my dear Aunty and cousins, 2 of which I have never met, and a land where apparently skiing and surfing in the same day is commonplace. Where the world's rarest penguin colonies share the same beach as those surfers, and where fluffy four-legged lil guys with the best wool coats in the world are over 47 million strong.
Just under 14,000 km from where I write this now, lies the jumping off point for The Year of Passion and the shores of:
New Zealand.
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