Apparently I do not know how to travel solo without going into tour mode. Nine hours of driving today, 2 caves seen.

But the scenery on the drive was — literally — breathtaking. At one point I just screamed at a mountain for about 30 seconds because it was being rude (too beautiful for this world)

I won’t have time to get to Milford Sound on this trip, unfortunately.

Neither rugby BUT I might hit a cricket game

Yeah it’s not that bad. You will reach over the wrong shoulder for your seatbelt about 10 times a day tho.

Today I saw this many caves

Driving on the left side of the road: no problem

forgetting the blinker is on the right side of the steering wheel, thereby accidentally turning on my windshield wipers 50x a day: yes problem

…Drove 4 more hours to see the Hundertwasser Toilets in Kawakawa.

I’ve been very offline of late, and this is how I found out. But yes, and wow.

Yes!!!

Literally yesterday I was telling someone about the costume and they said “does Grant Brisbee know about this? I feel like he will appreciate it” and friend, the tone was a little offensive toward us both

i did not, it turns out, hit a home run. I somehow (after swinging at a pitch in the dirt) hit a ball about as hard as I’ve hit it all season (and it went straight to the left fielder)

I had so many of those Disney cassette tapes with the read along books — they were how I learned to read!

I say this unironically: Maid Marian was my first crush (and I was like…. four years old when I first saw that movie)

You’re on your own with Bianca, she was too stately for me at that time. Unrefined little gremlin that I was

Levi how did you arrive at this theory?

Great question. It started with this 20-second song from The Fox & The Hound popping into my brain first thing this morning after 30+ dormant years, and it just sorta went from there; my brain is a mystery even to me.

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You might be asking “Levi are you counting things like Planet Earth or Zoo documentaries that might have shark and shark-adjacent materials?” and the answer is no. There is a whole cottage industry of shark “entertainment” like this, which I’m sure is a masterpiece:

Really gonna regret letting my kids design this shirt for me