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Our New
Zealand
visitors
By Nels Parson
Rappahannock News Writer
Rosalie and Graeme Hoddinott, from Christchurch, New Zealand, are visiting America for the first time. She is the residentiary canon at the ChristChruch Cathedral and is filling the pulpit at Trinity Episcopal Church for six weeks of Rev. Hobson’s sabbatical leave.
The Hoddinotts learned of this opportunity when Trinity advertised throughout the Anglican world. Through the miracle of e-mail we became acquainted and on the first of March they departed from Auckland and flew for 12 hours to Los Angeles. Six and a half hours later they arrived at Dulles Airport and three hours after that rode into Washington, Va;
A total of 28 hours en route from an origin 18 hours ahead of East Coast time produces exhaustion. But they recovered quickly, joined the community Lenten services and Trinity’s activities.
When asked what intrigued or surprised them about the United States, it was, first of all, adjusting to driving on the wrong side of the street. (In New Zealand, as in Britain, they drive on the left.)
Our leafless trees are strange to them. None of their indigenous broad leaf trees shed their leaves in the wintertime. Their most famous tree, the Tane Mahuta, can live for 2,000 years and is so tall, the first limbs are 200 feet from the ground. Our using miles instead of kilometers to measure distance is difSee
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