Ginger Without Borders

There was a strong wind blowing into the Paihia harbor yesterday morning but we were able to sit at our usual table for a breakfast of fried eggs for Dawn and probably my last Bennie (eggs benedict). The wind was blowing so hard that the restaurant to the left was closing all of its umbrellas…

When we arrived in Paihia, we knew we were in a place that liked dolpins because this is the wooden sculpture in the center of the town: The weather report for the next day predicted rain in the morning, so we called the sailboat tour operator to make sure that there we would be a…

As we left Auckland with the end of our adventure in sight, Dawn asked the question “What was your favorite part of our trip?” We mentally began to relive the last two months and compared notes on what stood out in our memories. Rather than events, what really came up was the little things that…

The end of our grand adventure is coming into sight. We will fly to LA from Auckland next week. Auckland is the home of one third of the people in NZ, over 1.6 million. It has the largest Polynesian population in the world. Like most places in NZ, it is a port city built on…

We added our next destination to our schedule because our daughter said it was the best place to have a Maori experience. We have been lots of places with tourist attractions promising a Maori experience, but the one in Rotorua, the Tamaki Maori Village, was the first and is still the most award wining Maori…