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Art Meets Function, and Mario Brothers: The top of Mount Victoria features mushroom-shaped vents which are connected to the underground water reservoir.

Mario Brothers on Mt. Victoria

February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Mario Brothers, a blast from the past in more ways than one! I've started going through some photos for my March gallery show and stumbled across this shot from 2014. I was in Auckland, NZ for a business trip and spent a Saturday on Devenport Island walking around playing tourist. I took a bit of a walk up Mount Victoria…

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Australia, New Zealand & New Photo Gear

July 17, 2017February 15, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Business travel may not be glamorous, but has its perks. I returned home from this weekend from a business trip that took me to Auckland and Christchurch New Zealand as well as Sydney Australia. While I do love visiting these cities, the trip there and back is hellacious and it takes me days to recover from the numbing jet lag.…

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Summer Travel: Australia and New Zealand

June 9, 2017January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Fixin' to get ready It's looking like I'll be doing some (work) summer travel this month, heading down to Australia and New Zealand. This is a long, whirlwind trip, a couple days in Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand; a few days in Sydney and Canberra, Australia then the long haul back home. With any luck I will have a couple…

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Lake Wakatipu New Zealand

October 10, 2016February 15, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Photos at Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand Last month I was on a business trip to New Zealand, and while I was laid out sick most of the trip, I did get out for some photos. I went for a drive through the countryside outside Queenstown with a couple of colleagues from work and stopped at Lake Wakatipu in Glenorchy on the South…

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Akaroa New Zealand

November 25, 2015January 21, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Akaroa NZ - France meets Kiwis I've just returned from a business trip through Sydney, Australia; Auckland, New Zealand; and Christchurch, New Zealand for the past few weeks. After work on our last day in the Christchurch area we took a drive down around route 75 south with no particular destination in mind, just driving through some gorgeous country ...and we…

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Back on the road again

November 4, 2015February 18, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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On the road again ... Tomorrow I'm back on the road again for a 17 day business trip to Australia (Sydney) and New Zealand (Auckland and Christchurch) for some PCI assessment work, and general information security meetings and reviews with folks in our APAC offices. I do love New Zealand, and Auckland in particular. This is my first trip to Christchurch and…

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Latte with a silhouette of an airplane - More Coffee - Less Travel

October – November Travel

September 25, 2015January 21, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Too much travel, too little time ... Over the next eight weeks, I will be traveling ... well pretty much around the world. I have a PCI conference in Vancouver, British Columbia to attend, some meetings in one of my company's Boston offices, and then ... audits down in Australia and New Zealand. Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, on the…

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