Up Normandale Road - Night 53

I awoke to a cloud filled sky, the first since my arrival in NZ. Entrenched in finishing Luke Rinehart masterpiece, The Dice Man, I spent the morning voraciously inhaling chapter after chapter of his daring prose. Around 11 am, exactly the time I finished the book, the clouds broke and the sun again showed itself. In a direct reversal of yesterday’s wandering, this time I hiked up

View from Belmont Park

Normandale road, having been told that the large Belmont Regional Park lies at the end of it. One wrong turn and an hour later I found a trailhead leading into the park. After a short hike, I located a small grassy knoll upon which to sprawl out and commence reading Tim Flannery’s best seller on climate change, The Weathermakers. As I’ve failed to mention before, the house has a vast library of quality contemporary literature and I desperately look forward to devouring as much of it as possible in my short month here.

The Belmont park is an amazing slice of nature located so near to downtown Wellington. Were it not for the set of powerlines traversing the main spine, one couldn’t identify a single sign of civilization. I returned home around 4 pm and set to work on some more weeding.

A day of hiking and reading. If there is such a thing as a perfectly relaxing day, this could have been it.

What I Learned Today: Worrying is nothing more than misplaced concern and anxiety over things which you cannot control. As such, it is a most useless and debilitating activity.

written by

exumenius on December 2, 2007 from Wellington, New Zealand

from the travel blog: Kiwis and Kangaroos

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