"And then not quite accurate." According to Wikipedia's antipodes map the true antipodes of New Zealand is (or possibly are) Spain. The antipodes of BC lie (or lies) on the high seas between the Cape of Good Hope and Antarctica.

We should be passing through Wellington in late January, Fossil. We figured Christmas and New Years would make for rather nightmarish camping so we are booked into two cottages in Northland (a week in each, not her in one and me in another). Pauline is googling Kapiti this very minute.

If I can figure out how to make the iPad upload pictures to my New Music Canada page I'll let you know, Gnu. (Know Gnu is good, nu. There's a kosher deli next door and I've eaten so many bagels lately I'm starting to think in Yiddish.) As for a story, today for the first time in my life I drove on the "wrong" side of the road—and this in downtown traffic. The surprise ending is that I didn't wind up in jail or the hospital.