What happens when a writer embarks on a bucket-list trip to far away New Zealand for a month of sightseeing, visiting (author) friends, hiking, traveling with a son, cycling for 8 days and otherwise having the trip of a lifetime? She notices the language, of course! It’s been so much fun learning the quirks of the English spoken here compared with the Midwest USA. Having lived in England, I knew all about the boot (trunk of a car) the lift (elevator) the school names, publi