Motorcycle from the Film 'The World's Fastest Indian'

The film is the life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, played by Anthony Hopkins in 2005, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle, a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

57. What life is this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare

July 15th 2009
(N) By the start of July, we had both stopped working, as our visas had expired. We spent the first day of the month cleaning and packing up the flat into boxes, throwing some warm clothes into a couple of smaller cases because the next morning was my birthday and we were flying down to Christchurch to start on the 2nd part of our South Island trip. You know you’re getting old when…the firs ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Stewart Island

The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more

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