Category: Travels
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Millford Sound – Part Two
As the tour bus pulled up to the wharf at Milford Sound, the driver (and our guide for the road trip) said, “It is always a good day in the Sound when you can see Mitre Peak.” We could – it is in the lower right in this picture and…
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Milford Sound – Part One
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…
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Off To Te Anau
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…
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To Middle Earth – Glenorchy
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.…
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On To 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…
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Franz Joseph Glacier
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…
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Franz Joseph Glacier
We were warned that New Zealand would be colder than Australia but Christchurch was quite warm. We soon discovered that New Zealand has the opposite problem of Australia. While Australia is suffering drought and bush fires, New Zealand is having a very rainy Spring. So much rain has fallen that…
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Now New Zealand
We have made our last airplane flight until we head back to the US in December. And of course, at the Sydney airport was when the Australian version of the TSA literally took everything out of Dawn’s two carry-on items. She had left a bottle with a little water in…
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Impressions of The Land That Time Forgot
As we wandered through Australia, Dawn and I spent a fair amount of time talking about how much this or that part of Australia reminded us of other places we have been fortunate enough to visit in our years of traveling. But what occurred to me in the shower this…
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The Blue Mountains
Our Australian adventure has come to its last two days. While we really enjoyed the Rocks area of Sydney, we wanted one more journey into the bush before we head off to New Zealand. When Sydney was first being developed, numerous groups attempted to push further into the Australian interior…
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