One for the road
It’s good to be back in the States, there are lots of things we don’t normally get to do. We bake Slovak Christmas eve bread…
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Moving to Madrona
We like Auckland even thought it often looks like this: But there is such a thing as too much fun, for us anyway, so we’ll…
The Lawn Bowlers of Waiheke
We’ve spent a lot of time anchored off the village of Oneroa on Waiheke Island. It’s an unusual place for New Zealand, the locals get…
Candid Auckland
Auckland is a very stylish city. It seems to be working hard to compensate for vast rural areas of the country where gummy boots and…
In Pursuit of Woolies
We were treated to one last edition of Zak’s famous delicious breakfasts before he and Kim had to hit the road to make their flight…
The Maori of Rotorua
Kim and Zak are relentless in the pursuit of vacation excellence and even though none of us had pockets deep enough for the $150/head Maori…
The Geothermal Anomalies of Rotorua
The central part of the North Island is volcanically active with hundreds of geothermal springs, mudpits, and geysers. The fields on the drive into Rotorua…
Tongariro
outh end of the North Island is a very hilly place where even the primary highways are just two-lane roads that defer to every curve…
Candid Wellington
We reconnected with Zak and Kim in Picton, and very early the next morning loaded our vans onto the first car ferry of the day…
The Southern Alps
We wound our way through countless hilly pastures, much of it on gravel roads where only the livestock noticed our passing. Soon mountains were erupting…