I have always been fascinated with the modern home. The clean lines, stark interiors and I wondered if anyone who lived in them had any “stuff” and where did they put it? The homes in NZ all have a slight … Continue reading Kiwi Modern and the Iron Mountain
About 20 years ago, Shawn bought this wonderful wool shirt from Pendleton that has kept him warm through many a cold trip. He lost this shirt, his lucky shirt. NZ loves dirt roads and today’s trip was on one of … Continue reading Rob Roy and How Shawn Lost His Shirt
Shawn loves to fly. He was even in the Air Force and during that time we lived across the street from the Air Force plane museum. Whoo. Hoo. I am good for about 5 minutes at a plane museum and … Continue reading Wanaka, Planes and More Planes
Took a drive to Lake Tekapo as it was supposed to have the bluest water in the area. Going to be hard to top Lake Pukaki. Lake Tekapo is the second-largest of three parallel lakes running north to south along … Continue reading Lake Tekapo
Ohau is a nice little alpine location with a small ski area and near a few towns with some wonderful names: Twizel, Tekapo and Pukaki. There is a lodge here where you can stay and we ate dinner there … Continue reading Mount Cook
New Zealand is a very magical place, as I have said before. Driving around and through the many farms and rolling hills, we see this beautiful rainbow, adding to the illusion of magic. It followed us for quite some time … Continue reading Teapots, Nuggets and the Brown House
I love penguins. One of the bucket list items coming to New Zealand was to see them in the wild along with a whale. One down, one to go! Driving towards the southern coast, an area called the … Continue reading Curio Bay and the Penguins
