Ahh, just arrived at Paynes Ford, the coolest place to climb in all of New Zealand. It’s in Golden Bay, in the northern tip of the South Island, in the Takaka River Valley. Paynes Ford is a band of limestone cliffs flanked by a huge river with lots of swimming holes. It’s beyond cool. We...
Arrived two days ago at 11:00 a.m., and by 4:00, I’d scored a sweet camper van and a spare bed at my friend Ziggy’s place for a few nights. Yesterday I equipped the van, got a cell phone, hooked it up to my email account, went grocery shopping and picked up Alicia at the airport....
Managed to squeeze in one last cool photo assignment before the big trip. This one was for Coastal Woman magazine, a cool magazine that’s designed by the talented Andrea Russell at Optasia Graphics. A few years back I shot her Bahamas wedding in Eleuthera, which was a lot of fun. At any rate, Andrea needed...
So we just cruised out to Joshua Tree for a final few days of climbing before the trip to New Zealand, and it was COLD. Like, so cold that our mugs froze to the picnic tables in the campground. So cold that we took a bottle of water out of the car and actually WATCHED...
