New Zealand was supposed to be the end of that sentence. But thanks a volcanic explosion in Chile, the answer has become Sydney, Australia. While we don’t yet know how long we’ll be stranded here (my family and I), we do know that all Qantas flights to NZ have been canceled for another day. So, now it’s a vacation in Australia for at least one more day!

By the way, what is bringing us to New Zealand is a two month teaching gig at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, which begins in about a week.

For more details on our travails of travel, check out my wife’s blog on our New Zealand adventure:
http://smacknz.blogspot.com/