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Bimbo is one of the strongest and most visible consumer brands in Guatemala. Part Hostess, part Quaker, part fluffy pastry goodness. What more could any Art Director wish for than to one day work on the Bimbo account. Just think of all the creative opportunity. Awesome!
My favorite new overseas shipper. OOCL did a great job with their new branding. When our container arrived to move our household from New Zealand to Colorado, it was pleasant surprise to see such a smart brand applied to a mundane 20″ steel container. Not only is the negative space a contemporary floral/organic shape, which beautifully juxtaposes the hard container shapes and letterforms, it also tells the story of global logistics and connectivity. Well done OOCL.
It’s funny how your most powerful and memorable experiences usually derive from an utter lack of preparation and planning. It must be the complete lack of expectation that creates an experience in its truest and purest form. No previous visualization taints and subtracts from the actual event.I guess what I am trying to say is that the more we imagine an event in advance, the more we might be disappointed or merely satisfied by the actual experience.
Turns out, Good Friday is indeed a terrible day to travel in Central America.
My goal for today was to escape the entrapment of the 2-acre island of Tobacco Caye (just as the weather turned perfect, as it would), and bus it to Corozal, a small town just south of the Mexican Border.
As we arrived inBelize City from Tikal, the differences between this Jamaican outpost and the rest of Central America were instantly visible and audible. Belize City danced to the drums of reggae, Garifunga and Creole. This did not help at all to further develop our rudimentary Spanish attempts. It would have felt completely inappropriate to attempt a Spanish conversation here. Almost as inappropriate as American tourists traveling through the rest of Central America without the smallest attempt of using any form of basic Spanish. Almost.
Without much of a goal in mind other than traveling South along the coast to see some more of Belize off the beaten path, we boarded a bus in Belize City to Dangriga. Over the next two hours, our group of two merged with two girls from Finnland and a Mexican/Czech couple, and it was decided to head for Tobacco Caye, a much less touristy atoll out on the reef about 150 km south of Belize City.
We could not have asked for a more perfect day to leave good old Christchurch. Not only did the striking blue sky paint the city in its most vibrant colors, some thousand bagpipe players had also assembled throughout the city and its parks for no apparent reason. Funny enough, they did not seem out-of-place in this olde English town.
Nick, Kim and myself spent or last Waitangi Day in New Zealand at the über-spectacular Mueller Hut opposite of Mt Cook. Pictures after the jump.
On our last chance to maximize our experience in New Zealand, we went for an all-out scenic assault of the South Island to fill all the remaining gaps. Each year, new Zealand enters a 2-3 week life-support stage as the entire nation packs up their beloved campervans and heads to the beaches. And by “entire nation”, I mean “entire nation.” A sign of a country that truly values a healthy work-life balance. The poseur-kiwis that we are, we had no caravan to pack, but the trusty Impreza was a more suitable piece of machinery anyway to take us to beaches, glaciers and rainforests. Pictures and details after the jump.