DEAD RECKONING NZ 001
During our flight to New Zealand we lost a day and it’s not coming back. Buh-bye. This means my year is one day shorter; I am aging faster, but at least my hourly goes up. It was on our flight, while we were accelerating towards old age, that we first noticed familiar concepts were not precisely translated in the Kiwi dialect. Economy Plus on Air New Zealand actually means you sit closer to the seat in front of you than in normal Economy, the “Plus” in this case being that you are given the opportunity to become much more intimate with the aggressively reclining seat in front of you. And the differences don’t stop there, upon landing we learned that in New Zealand summer doesn’t exactly mean “t-shirts, shorts, and slides” like it does back home, as we would come to find out the sun would be notably absent throughout most of our trip, like a reclusive tycoon who throws parties but chooses not to attend. Not that this dampened our spirits, I mean it did, a little, but we were in New Zealand, halfway around the world about to ride across the country. We built our bikes in the motel parking lot, ate Indian food ordered “English Hot” and waited to meet our guide, who we met through the internet. You know, how some people meet their husbands or wives. We hoped he wasn’t a bot.
The AWOL x YONDER JOURNAL #deadreck Brass AWOL’s are made in 4 limited pieces and will travel the world during 2015, get used and abused, beaten up and patina nicely. Naked brass will never stop evolving and the adventures will leave scars like natural tattoos on the frames. More to come.
Words and photos by our friends at Yonder Journal