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I booked my ticket to New Zealand yesterday. I fly out from London on Tuesday 20th December, arriving Auckland at 5:30am, Thursday 22nd. I pick up a hire car at the Airport and drive straight down to Rotorua. I'm there for three weeks and leave on Thursday 12th January, getting back to London at 10:35am, Firday 13th. Obvioulsly, I'm very excited although I don't think the reality of it has quite sunk in yet. Two years ago I'd only been abroad once (a week in Amsterdam) and now here I am, planning my third trip to New Zealand! Life is strange. It's my 40th birthday next week. There have been times over the years when I never thought I'd make it this far! My world got a whole lot bigger a couple of years ago when my partner and I split up. I had no idea where I was going or what I was going to do. A joke with a friend at work resulted in me giving up everything and going off round the world. I've been to Thailand, Australia and New Zealand and met some wonderful people and many of them have become close friends. Sometimes it blows me away: a guy who spent most of his life living in Cornwall, England, now has friends all over the world. Not to mention that I've jumped out of an aeroplane 112 times. This last year has been really tough. Any plans I had seem to have gone out of the window and once again I have no idea of where I'm going or what I'm doing. New Zealand calls to me. I'm working on trying to get a job out there. I don't know if it will be possible yet. I'm finding it hard to focus at the moment. Better just mention that I mean I can't focus on getting things moving - nothing to do with my penchant for Jack Daniels, although Jack is here with me as I type! People say that life begins at 40. Well, life is kinda stalled at the moment so I'm hoping that maybe people are right. I would never have got this far without the love and support of so many friends - far too many to mention individually. I hope that if any of you are reading this that you know how much your support has meant to me. It occurs to me that lately, these news items have turned into a sort of "blog". Perhaps I'll start a new page on the site which is a "blog", rather than using the news items which were intended to be news about skydiving, of which I hope there will be plenty to report when I get back to New Zealand!
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