My new home base for the next two months to live/work/play smells like rotten eggs. Mmmm hmmm, that's right...like the kind that go bad. It's all g, though, y'all cause it's not real eggs stinkin up the place.. Yucky egg smell often indicates sulphur is lurking in the air - and this town has lots of it...geothermal vent style steaming from inside the earth to grace us humans with it's eggy presence. Fascinating. I love the fact that very active and live earth is just beneath my feet!
Not only is this area volcanically active, but -oh my gosh- it has such a gigantic system of dedicated mountain bike trails. Seriously, I have a different sort of paradise in my backyard for the next several weeks. St. Louis, I love you and will forever be grateful for your existence to introduce me to my first, and thus far only, true love of mountain biking.
But this trail system is like St. Louis on some serious steroids- the trail network spans over 100km of varying difficulty and then you mix in baby redwoods (though ginormous, they are quite small by california's standards), crystal clear streams and lakes, super fresh air, palm tree looking ferns, Maori carvings, pure beauty...really I never knew such a place existed.
Also class V rapids to 'float' and plenty of rocks to climb and Maori culture to discover and trails to run and lakes to swim in...
I've just seen the tip of the iceberg of what this wondrous country has to offer...
And now the job hunt begins so I can enjoy these fun ventures to the max :)
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