As I have said, I am not driving a car on this trip. A decision made out of stark terror caused by driving on the left side of the road. Given that bit of caution, we still are nearly run over every time we cross a street, by looking the wrong way for oncoming […]
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Basically a day of much needed rest. We walked into town (about 10 minutes) to the super market and picked up a few supplies – coffee, Coke Zeros, bread, sandwich fixings, and breakfast stuff. This is a pretty expensive place to live although it is a little hard to calculate due to the difference […]
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It is Monday here in New Zealand, Super Bowl Sunday at home. The game, at 12:30 pm our time, was not to be shown on local television, and I was not successful finding a way to stream it (at least not within my capabilities). After a little bit of research I determined that none of […]
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On this trip, I am really noticing the recent enhancements to Google Maps. I think the routing, particularly “on foot” is much improved, and we are using it frequently – to the store, to restaurants, to the hardware store (more electrical plug adapters) and this morning the local Methodist Church. Despite the assurances from Google, […]
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You will notice that the date of this post is Feb 1, not Jan 31, since we crossed the international date line, we lost a day, which we will get back on the return to the U.S. Auckland is 19 hours ahead of Dallas, or you can think of it as 5 hours behind Dallas, […]
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I am writing this first entry to the journey in the middle of the Pacific at 38,000 feet – to be posted from Auckland. As I have said this is a different sort of journey – not our normal long cruise, but rather a long stay in New Zealand (the month of February) followed by […]
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While our previous journeys have been exclusively cruises, this one is a combined land and sea adventure. When we have visited New Zealand on two previous cruises, we wanted to stay longer than the 8 hours in each port that is the norm for cruises. We have been intrigued by the culture, the people, and […]
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