From Blenheim we drove west to the city of Nelson, near the northern tip of the South Island. Billed as the sunniest city in New Zealand, Nelson is a popular vacation spot with a thriving arts + culture scene. Upon arrival in town we had some time to kill before getting into our rental, so […]
Our base for the excursion to Milford Sound was Te Anau, a small town on the southern end of Lake Te Anau. Te Anau exists almost exclusively to support Milford Sound tourism, and was hit hard in February when the road to Milford Sound was closed by a series of massive landslides. The pandemic hit […]
We’re in Queenstown now. We’ve been here several weeks, with more to go. We haven’t stayed in one place this long since we left home in August. We’ve adopted a much slower pace of life. The boys will often get up early to play video games online with friends back home. I cook a breakfast […]
Getting to New Zealand was a goal – and we made it! After our couple days in Auckland, we headed back to the airport for a flight to the South Island town of Queenstown. Check-out time in the apartment was 10am and our flight wasn’t until 2:30, so we had some time to kill. As […]
We started following the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) in January, when it was declared a World Health Emergency. By chance we left Italy just before the outbreak started there, and we kept an eye on the news as we traveled in Africa. During our safari we had occasional (and very slow) Wi-Fi access at strategically-placed […]
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