thoughts and actions and other things: pictures that i didn't take

So, I've posted this picture below because it might be my favorite from the New Zealand road trip and the story behind it is kind of interesting. This was taken by a Korean woman at the Milford Sound as I was settling down to prepare lunch and enjoy the view on a clear day (it was cloudy when we arrived the day before). I noticed her a bit before she starting taking pictures so when she began to snap some shots of me cutting up vegetables for a salad I wasn't too thrown off. Actually, this type of attention is not uncommon in Japan so it made me feel a bit at 'home' after days of driving in an unfamiliar country. Anyway, she came over to me a bit later and after naming all of the ingredients in my salad the woman politely asked my for my email. I of course gave it to her and by coincidence later on in the day I ended up day helping her husband find some gasoline in one of the most remote parts of New Zealand after his car stalled out in a nearby tunnel (yeah, that's a whole other story). This was two months ago. The interesting part of the story is that I thought of this couple for the first time since the event happened yesterday, the same day that they emailed me this picture along with this short message-

I think meeting you is one of the good things that happened to me during my trip. I'd like to keep these good memories for a long time and hope you had a good time, too. If it is possible, I hope me can meet again some day.

p.s. I am sorry about that it took so long to send pictures.

(I'd suggest clicking on the below picture to see it full-size.)

These other pics were ones that I really liked that Cris and Caitlin took last week. They're straight off of their Flickr pages so all credit goes to them.