Thompson Gypsy Adventure

From November 2009 to September 2010 Tyler and Paula will be on a grand adventure. We have lent our house to another family who need a place to live while they are building a new house, and we have hit the road. New Zealand, Australia, Texas (!), Ireland, Scotland, England, and Japan are planned.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Christchurch, New Zealand

Monday, December 14, 2009     Christchurch and high-country excursion

Our shore excursion from Christchurch headed west into the high country toward Arthur Pass.  From a jet boat we saw this bridge over a gorge.  It is part of the TranzAlpine (sic) railway, which we intend to ride from coast to coast when we return to this are around the end of January.




This is one of the other tour busses.  They do like their bus art down here.




Here is Our Favorite Botanist amidst some of our favorite scenery.













On the drive back to Christchurch we came upon a hailstorm just after it had passed by.




That evening, and every evening, we returned to our stateroom to discover a work of towel art prepared by the cabin steward.




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Midland, Michigan, United States
Tyler is a retired research scientist (PhD Chemistry, University of Illinois) who worked for The Dow Chemical Company. The last 16 years of his career he served as grants and contracts manager for Dow's External Technology program, involving Dow sponsored research grants to universities, government research contracts into Dow, and a variety of other industry/university/government research partnerships. Paula is a botanist with graduate work in plant taxonomy. She worked as a microbiology research assistant for four years while Tyler was in graduate school, then led a busy life raising 3 kids, gardening, and serving in a variety of church ministries and activities.