All quiet on the western front

hello all,
it took two and a half days to get to arizona by bus from new york, it was an interesting trip,met a few folk from all over. there was one guy from l.a. that was travelling with his wife and kid and he was like- well i never met no-one from ireland before! to which i answere- well i haven't ever met anyone from l.a.! new york city was great. expensive but nice to see. found some great places that were real new york, like nice family run diners and 24hour ones too! also ate obligitory hotdog.(got shafted by vendor) got the staten island ferry which is free and saw manhattan from the sea. went past the statue of liberty. nice feeling all through the city too.
found a great hostel called the chelsea international hostel on 23rd and 8th. the city is real easy in general to get around. it is all grid so if you wanna get somewhere just check what number it is and how far uptown or down town it is from you.the natural history museum is awesome and we saw so many things! then wandered round the city and found little details like a stone witch on a pillar. the kind of thing you'd miss if you got the metro everywhere.

we are now in a place called terrasante. it is a small collection of people and dwelling in the middle of arizona, on the edge of the sonoran desert. there are lots of little fluffy clouds.
everyone here is very nice and days are pretty easy going. usually 3 to 6 hours of doing stuff and the rest just chatting and hanging around. the place has loads of wildlife. saw a few little fast lizards, woodpeckers, ROADRUNNERS!,cool quail that look like lindy-hoppers from the 20's and on the edge of actually fully seeing them- javelina's- which are little pig like animals that are about the size of a pot bellied pig but are actually closer to tapirs. they come out at night and when you shine a torch at them they are the same colour as the sandso if they dont move you don't see them.
heard loads of coyotes out at night but if you are around they aren't and that poor singer in canada was a freak event. we are eating food from a food drop in the local mission that we went along to today. it is a firefly class baptist church, that is to say that it is known as the serenity baptist church. an interesting experience that was.

more later

new york/gotham/scifi fantasy land

arriving in the city by bus i saw---
the joker on a street corner acting manic and a ninja or raiden the japanese god of thunder on a roof top beside the pub we went to.
so the comics are true sometimes as are bad movies with kurt rusell.

going well so far. just waiting to check back in to the hostel.
then to touristically wander the spots and highlights that we like. might also get a funny pic of something for mum. check back!

wwoof!

having a good time over all. had fun making a deep hole today. that is i had a great time and zee was all eeps! mostly due to my bad directing skills. it is so cold here. finishing up in mass-a-chew-sets on saturday and then off to a desert or some such(AZ). we saw a real life garter snake the other day. but we didn't get to try it on! badum! tsch! it was so scared of us and Lachie the resident aussie was able to scare it away using old bush lore. whacking a stick. it hid behind a tree! been milking goats all week and we made two very nice and very individual fences using all of the tree! wattle fence for one and dead-hedging. look it up.

lots of love,
your Uncle Traveling Matt
that is to say.
Zee and Dee

arrived!

hi all. justy a quick post to say we are on the farm and looking at how it all gets done.seems rather relaxed. minor teething problems.
all good. yurt is good. went wandering the woods last night with a fellow wwoofer named lachy, i thought it was loki but it isn't:( he's from australia and is well mad. just camping down in the woods. tootally mad! i couldn't do that yet! also might be small be small bears around!

saw a blue jay yesterday. lovely.
helped lift a fridge about too. was fun.

more soon.