So one month ago today, Rachel and I set out on our amazing adventure in the land of the Kiwis, New Zealand. We've been back for over a week now and have shared a few of our stories with you, but I personally have been finding it hard to sum-up in words all of the fantastic things we did over that time. It feels like we were there for a lifetime and visited 20 different countries, not just one! I came across an article last week by recent Man-Booker prize winner (and New Zealander) Eleanor Catton that finally explains this struggle I have had:
"To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt. In such moments natural beauty becomes a kind of devastation – it is pure encounter, too compressed in time and space to be properly contained."
In the spirit of the New Year and the vow to do creative, self-improvement projects that inevitably follows, I have decided to tackle one myself. In the following month I will be re-telling our trip one day at a time. I wanted a medium to highlight not just the big-wow moments, but the small unique times too, not to mention I want to re-read those daily journal entries and relive it all with you!
So on the corresponding date in January I will send out a blog post recounting our matching day in New Zealand. I don't intend for these to be long novels and hopefully this will be good practice for me in succinctly editing and summarizing our memories. I hope it will be a fun journey for you too, arm-chair traveling as we say at NGS.
Here's that entire article I quoted earlier by Eleanor Catton, The Land of the Long White Cloud, I highly recommend you give it a read as a primer for the blogs to come (although sadly, my writing will not live up to her standard in any way, shape, or form!) Tomorrow, the 8th, is the day we lost in transit, so expect your first e-mail on the 9th.
Kia Ora,
Rosie
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