Wednesday, March 23, 2011. If tears could build a stairway and memories were a lane,. I would walk all the way to Heaven, to bring you home again. No farewell words were spoken, no time to say good-bye. You were gone before I knew it, and only God knows why. My heart aches in sadness, and secret tears will flow. What is meant to lose you, no one will ever know. I did not feel like posting yesterday. Today I saw the oncologist.

The Hurunui High Country Track is situated on Island Hills Station a working high country station one and a half hours north of Christchurch in the South Island of New Zealand. The Track covers 30km over three nights and takes you through many different types of vegetation and landscapes including farmland, beech forest and sub-alpine terrain.