So what is so great about new Zealand has all the great landscape elements of America (except desert) but within a 3 hour drive. Yesterday […]

Yesterday, we hiked up onto the Fox Glacier on the west coast of the Southern Island. It was seriously cool. Its one of the few […]

NZ has some crazy-arse birds! NZ used to be part of the super continent Gondwanaland, but split off early and developed its own crazy ecosystem […]

  So our friends from Denver, Jay and Carla, came to visit us in New Zealand. They just left this morning and we had a […]

This is something that I have always wanted to do (same with Carla) so given the opportunity to whale watch off the coast of NZ […]

Yesterday I drove the rental car for the first time. I have never driven on the opposite side of the road (not “wrong” side, just […]

So…..we decided to sleep last night (Sunday) in Waganui before heading to stay with a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend. […]

Saturday, we went and checked out the Wai-O-Tapui thermal area. First off we saw the lady knox geyser. We were somewhat disappointed in it as […]