Ginger Without Borders

After our experience with the weather in Franz Joseph, we were closely watching the weather reports for Milford Sound for days. The rain falling heavily on our way to Te Anau weighed on our spirits. But the morning of our tour, the sky was clear and only a few clouds were in the sky above…

The first draft of our NZ route from the travel agent suggested that we spend four days in Queenstown and travel from there to tour the Milford Sound. That would require a four hour trip to and from Milford Sound, which would have been a tedious ride and not a good day for Dawn’s back.…

Dawn and I made a startlingly discovery in Queenstown. I was, as usual, reading some history on the origins of the town. It was 1863, and a group of Irishmen read that some of thier countrymen had recently renamed thier port town after Queen Elizabeth – they named it Queenstown. The NZ Irish decided Queenstown…

The road trip to Queenstown is the second longest driving trip of our journey and it requires going driving through the Southern Alps in NZ (that is pronounced “in-zed” here because the Brits say zed not ze for the letter Z). They also call Australia “Oz” here. But the weather report promised us blue skies…

The man at the hotel’s reception desk said if you could see the waterfall from the parking lot, it was a good day to see the glacier.  When we arrived too tired to make that walk, you could see the waterfall and the snow on the mountain tops above it (refer to my last blog).…