Well, yesterday Oracle was eliminated by Alinghi in the Louis Vuitton Cup finals. Barry (my former officemate from Brightmail in San Francisco) has come out to NZ for a vacation. We met up a few days ago and yesterday he came out to my vantage point to watch the race with me. Today we’re renting a car are going around the North Island for a couple of weeks. We’re going to start in Waitomo where we’ll see some glowworms and go black water rafting.

I’ve uploaded my pictures from the trip to Australia.

I probably won’t be able to do much in terms of updates of the weblog from the road, so don’t be surprised if I’m quiet. I’ll take a day or two in Auckland around when Barry leaves, and I’ll catch up with everything then. Once that’s out of the way, I’m going down to Tauranga, NZ which is where the Around Alone boats have their stopever. I’m going to volunteer to help out the campaign of Brad Van Liew prior to the restart on February 9.