One Country at a Time
Posted in Adventure Travel, New Zealand, The Travel Bug, Workin' Hard for the Money on Jul 13th, 2009
You thought you’d heard the last of my amazing trip to New Zealand, huh? Well, you thought wrong! There’s one final adventure I failed to rehash, perhaps because it took me until now to replay it in my mind, it scared the bejeezus out of me so. I only had 24 hours in Auckland, you [...]
Posted in Adventure Travel, New Zealand, The Travel Bug, Workin' Hard for the Money on Apr 26th, 2009
If you’ve been following my adventures for awhile, you’re probably not at all surprised that the first thing on my list of things to do in New Zealand was bungy. I’ve gone skydiving in the Pyrenees, dropped 100 feet into a black hole in Waitomo, dove with sharks (multiple times), thought I was going to [...]
Posted in Adventure Travel, New Zealand, The Travel Bug, Workin' Hard for the Money on Apr 13th, 2009
There’s just so much sadness around the Internet this week, what with Baby Maddie and now Baby Thalon’s unexpected deaths and the anniversary of Kerri Anne’s own father dying, as well, not to mention the tornadoes that have wreaked havoc in Middle Tennessee where I’m from, with many people injured and having lost their homes—sigh. [...]
Posted in Adventure Travel, New Zealand, Photo Friday on Mar 27th, 2009
Like any good travel writer, I turned—where else?—to the Internet when planning my whirlwind tour of the North Island, namely to fellow bloggers and Twitter friends who have far more knowledge of New Zealand than I. And I’m glad I did—Auburn, formerly an expat living in NZ whose opinion I highly value, said (in not [...]
