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

Dunedin, New Zealand

Sunday, December 13, 2009     Dunedin, in the state of Otago, South Island

Dunedin was settled by Scottish settlers and still shows the influence.  It is the home of the University of Otago, and was the departure point for us on an excursion visiting some wonderful country gardens in the region.  Here is a photo of the best flower in the garden.


This is First Church of Dunedin.  It's Presbyterian, of course, in contrast to the dominant Anglican influence in the rest of New Zealand.




This is the restored train station in Dunedin.  The architect clearly had more fun with this than is typical for public buildings.




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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.