On The Road Again: Everything as it should be.....

heh heh heh everyone!! happy new year to you all, and hope the festive season was great! much apoligies for the lack of updates but every time i mean to get on a computer some insane mission pops up and of course the blog becomes lower in the priority list, but anyway here it is, finally!!!
Its kind of hard to remember what has happened in the last month but heres a brief run down on whats been going down.
Ok, so i arrive in New Zealand late November, sort out all the paper work bits n pieces and arrange transport to my summer destination; Hangdog. My home away from home, im glad to report that noting has really changed here, the parties are still awsome, the people are amazing company and paynes ford is still standing with the same beautiful lines of killer climbing!
I had a brief search for work with not much luck for quite awhile, and so i gave up. A week later and the offers started pouring in, at one point i had 3 jobs on the go, a bit of labour work, dish washing and working in a fish n chip shop. This was way to much and so I have stuck with just the chippy, which is actually quite alot of fun, I have never worked in such a chaotic enviroment, its just nuts.
And so, weeks of parties and climbing is all that has really been occupying my life, not bad eh? For my Birthday we had a bbq down by the climbing then ventured onto the swiming hole where drunken slackline was taken on. Christmas was a huge feast with 50 odd people eating outside in the blistering sunshine, then a trip down to the beach for windy swimming and chilling in the sand. New years took me up to the top of Takaka hill where there resided a dance party. However the entrance fee was fairly extreme so a recon mission through the forests was definatly the only way to get in. Danced the night away and watched the sun rise come up over the hill at around 1000m. A good way to start the new year!!!
A few days into the new year, me and a few friends decide on a little hike through the cobb valley, we rock up at a sweet little hut at around 10pm at night, have a few beers then rest for the following days mission. An awsome walk through valleys, then onto ridge lines then back down through grassy plateaus (where sandalls are not the most choice of foot wear) then upto another hut 'the asbestos hut' where a couple lived for 30 years!! this is such a sweet story, this guy who was in his 70's would hike backwards and forwards from motueka to this hut which is a real killer distance away, and bring bags of up to 32kg of food back to his wife along with flowers and then set off again the next day!!! Hard core dude!!
Anyways that about sums it up I think, Sorry for it being quite brief but I havent written any of this down and cant remember all of it.
But in a nut shell, life is, as usual awsome. I hope all you guys are well and are having fun where ever you may be!!
much love and peace
tom