In NZ, You Feel Like You're on a Planet

Why continent kids love islands

Been a weird week, so let’s do a weird NZ feeling I’ve never figured out. When I’m outside in the landscape here, I am often struck by the overpowering sensation that I am standing on the surface of a planet.

I mean—Earth, obviously? But the planet feeling is not so literal. It’s a vague signal, a visitation in the mind like déjà vu or that ASMR tingle. …