This site has a collection of posts, mainly about travel, but also other topics authored by members of the Jones and Haden-Jones family currently living in New York and New Zealand. Content is copyright the respective authors and may be used under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You are free to use, share, adapt the material as long as the author is credited. Richard Jones asserts his right to be credited with authorship of all contributions by Pirongia, including all photographs.
Was there ever a time in your working life when you had just had enough? This is my story. The oil industry traditionally is one of boom and bust. One day you are a Chief Geophysicist working on prospects off West Africa for the World Bank, the next you are giving extra English lessons to … Read more
Rag Mama Rag hit the airwaves in 1969 as a track on their second album The Band. I liked the song and bought the album and subsequently Music from Big Pink released the year before. The music was identifiably rock but also had strong elements of blues and country. Coming after the technical expertise of … Read more
Long trip of 17 hours went by rather nicely after all and we both got a decent sleep too. One piece of luggage never arrived but they found it stuck in a chute somewhere eventually. Other than that JFK was efficient and the yellow cab driver helpful. We recovered pretty quickly and on the Saturday … Read more
I have a number of photos that I have used as desktops on various computers. Most of them hold some memory or have a background of some meaning for me. The quality of the photos however, is quite variable. In this occasional series I will describe some of those. We might sub-title this one “tranquility”.
