mama and papa will be going to mexico march 11-18 and require me to stay here and hold down the fort. (for obvious reasons my brother cannot be allowed to stay in the house alone). so i will be delaying my departure from the end of february to late march instead. which is just as well, as the snowboarding right now is f a n t a s t i c .

in order to make up some time i may have to fly from auckland to nelson to meet the alvei instead of cycling, which would take me 2 weeks. another time, perhaps...