I've been on the road now for a little over three weeks. I don't miss the snow. Right now I'm in Wellington, New Zealand soaking up the rain (and today quite a few rays of sun according to my face). Last week I spoke at LCA and then DrupalSouth. Both conferences were spectacularly organized. My extreme thanks to the organizers of both events for making me feel like a champion. Over the course of the week I delivered five presentations on topics ranging from my history with free and open source volunteerism through to documentation and version control with a little bit of PHP thrown in too. My slides are up on slideshare.net and the videos from LCA will eventually be available online.
As a bonus: I'm three weeks on the road, have shaken hands with more people I can shake a stick at and have *knock on wood* yet to get sick. I think this might be a first for me.
Although I'm supposed to be working while I'm on the road I took most of today off to wander around Wellington. I went up the cable car. Wandered around the Zealandia nature reserve and did a bit of shopping which resulted in a tea towel fetish. Zealandia was absolutely brilliant. I saw rare kakas being fed. Hiked around on well groomed trails. Read interpretive signs. Took loads of pictures and generally had a wonderful time in nature.
I understand why the tourism centre also has immigration pamphlets.
We'll see what tomorrow brings. At some point I need to get out into the countryside and see some sheep. I've been told the place to do this is the south island (home to Ashford spinning wheels). I'm not sure I'm ready for that much of an adventure yet. Hutt Valley may be a possibility though.
