> The color difference, we were told, is usually more stark than what we saw that morning -- evidently we were there too early and the park rangers hadn't gotten around to dumping in the dye --

Wow. I am pretty sure you're kidding here, but not positive... Scary.

> Ice Cream
>
> We stopped for ice cream. Again.
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> Hot Food
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> We spotted a takeaway place that appeared to be named "Hot Food," but on closer inspection it did have a proper name.
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> Lake Tarawera
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> We went to Lake Tarawera.
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> East Coast Beach
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> We went to an east coast beach.

Is this the part where Dave stole your notebook? I was expecting this section of sparse commentary to end with "Dave took my notebook and bonked me on the head and yelled at me."

Don "There was something else I wanted to comment on in this post, but I didn't find it in a quick skim through... Suffice to say, there were two times when I wondered if Sam was kidding. Call me gullible..." Monkey