That Southern California Feel
The city of Napier (population 54,000) feels like Southern California in miniature – while we were in town, it was all beaches and breezes and blue sky and palm trees. […]
Category Archives: New Zealand
NZ’s Oldest National Park
After a frustrating Airbnb experience — at 7:00pm, the host at the Forgotten World Motel, where we had made a reservation, told us that she had given our room away […]
Hot Stuff
We spent a full day in and around Rotorua, the heart of geothermal activity in New Zealand. Think hot springs, geysers, bubbling mud, and the smell of sulfur in the […]
Around the Peninsula
For our first day of road tripping, we decided to go around the Coromandel Peninsula. The first thing that we learned when driving here is that New Zealand is much […]
Flying Objects
Prescott and I started our journey to New Zealand on Christmas Eve Day. So when we stepped through immigration at Changi Airport in Singapore, we immediately encountered this guy: I […]
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