February 2010
24 posts
After it all.......
After the beaches and mountains and volcanoes and thermal ponds and fishing and glaciers and mountains and golf and gliders and mountains and whales and dolphins and mountains and sunshine and great food and scenery and, did I say mountains???
Well, it’s been a month and I miss home! It’s time to find my way back to friends, family and my own bed.
After Queenstown.....
I just started bumping around and looking! I made my way back towards Christchurch and played some golf. Then, I went into Christchurch and did some sightseeing around town (nothing remarkable). I then headed north to Kaikoura. This is a sleepy little town that doesn’t want to be anything more then a fishing and whale watching town. It was another beautiful drive through countryside and...
It's nice to hear from you by your comments and...
….it kinda keeps me in touch with home. While I try, it’s really hard to reply to all emails. The internet is really unreliable. It’s taken me as long as two hours to write one single note. If I don’t respond to your note, it won’t be because I didn’t try.
Queenstown is an amazing place!
The downtown and wharf area of Queenstown is constantly buzzing. Fabulous scenery, restaurants and shopping galore! There are activities that can keep a person busy doing something different for weeks. Jet boating, para-sailing, skydiving, base jumping, sailing, fishing, trekking, bungee jumping, whitewater rafting, airplane rides, helicopter rides, ferry boat rides………
There are...
January 2010
70 posts
So you've had a little fun!
Some of you have enjoyed poking fun with my little screw-up in Geraldine. Well, I’m glad for you!
Elaine has been paid and all is good. It’s true, the night I was in Geraldine, I visited a local pub and met a few local Kiwi’s. There was a cricket game on TV (just like every night), and I asked them about how the game was played.
Well, you see I learned that night that a...
A rainy day in New Zealand!
Yup, all day rain and mist.
I left Christchurch like a mouse in a maze. Back and forth, up and down, backtracking and trailblazing without having any idea of where I was going. As luck would have it, after turning off of a main road so I could stop and get my bearings, shazaam, there was the NZ Air Force Museum getting ready to open for the day. What the hell, I figured I’d take the tour...
Christchurch
Well, after having traveled most of the roads on the North Island, I decided to come south! It all worked out remarkably. I drove to the airport in Auckland, bought a ticket, flew to Christchurch, had a car waiting and drove to a hotel in downtown without a hitch.
Outside, in the town square, which greatly reminded me of State Street, I saw a great comedic show. While it was a sidewalk show, it...
