Beth will be joining me tomorrow. I've been busy exploring the city. I've tracked my walking and its about a marathon since I started to explore the different neighborhoods. I've done CBD, Mt Eden, Ponsonby, New Market, Parnel, and a few others that I don't recall their names. Each little nook has its own feel. Right now if I had to make a decision, it would be Mt Eden, mainly cause of the awesome hills it has and I'm a gluten for punishment on the bike.
Talking about bikes I will have to wonder over to the second hand
bike store tomorrow and see what they got. I have found 4 other bike
stores of which only 2 were open. When I walked into both of them, it
was like a swift kick to the berries. I own an expensive bike already,
but these just look to be your run of the mill road bikes but the price
tags claim otherwise. I think the cheapest bike I saw was a couple
grand and then upwards of 8k for a frame and fork. On these bikes I saw
a mix of components but mainly 105 and only some with red. I can't see
myself dropping close to 4k for 105. Also helmets are mandatory here
and they cost about as much as my ACL reconstruction. I've seen them
for as cheap as $200 and as expensive as $500. I could probably blow my
entire savings on a bike before Beth even gets here. This makes
looking for a job even more important.
On the job front, I have
been working with 3 different recruiters in 3 different cities. It has
been interesting as I was meeting on Skype and emailing over the past
couple months, but now that I'm here I'll have to go pound some pavement
to get something rolling. I'm pretty sure I can pick up some odd ball
jobs as that is what most travelers do, but I want a fun job. Maybe I
can talk someone into letting me use their house for the next big
thing. Close quarters paintball with real hostages!
My Random Photos Like My Thoughs of New Zealand
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