17 January 2002
1:00 a.m. CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand
Kim and I drove up today and unfortunately, my flight plans changed and I fly out of Christchurch in about six hours - which means I leave here in about four hours and somehow I've got to get some sleep. Kim and I had to scrap the whale watching in Kaikoura (about a three hour drive up north). It's okay, because we've decided that we both have to return to Australia and New Zealand to really do all that we want to do. These two countries have so much to offer - I'd consider moving to Sydney even (such a great city). Plus then, Kim would have a free place to stay.

I arrive in Sydney around 8 a.m. tomorrow which will be great because I wanted to get to the Powerhouse museum and also the Museum of Contemporary Art as there is a great neo-Tokyo exhibit of emerging Japanese artists. Hey Sor, does Tokion need an article? Kim arrives about 8 p.m. and then we spend the following day at the Botanical Gardens and go to the airport to part at about 1 p.m. Kim heads back to the real world and I head back to my life as a professional freeloader - oh! I mean life in the unreal-but-fabulous-live-and-eat-and-travel-like-a-queen world.
H.