A good long break.
It’s been over a YEAR (!!!) since we returned to the States from our overseas adventures, and almost a year since we posted anything. Shame on us. Lest you worry that we evaporated in Christchurch, have no fear! We continued our explorations, and loved every minute of it. The truth is, we got busy. In … Continue reading
Explorations in Christchurch
The drive down to Christchurch ended up being rather rainy and misty but we had a few fun diversions along the way. We’ve both done enough road trips to know that when numerous cars are pulled over on the side of a small road there will either be wildlife or some sort of terrible accident. … Continue reading
Crossing the Strait
We woke up, made some coffee, and ate our granola and yogurt with our first Kiwi kiwi fruit. Then we got things relatively organized in the car and headed for Wellington to see if we could find the bar that the nice guy at Mike’s Organic had wanted us to find if we could only … Continue reading
Back to the Boots
After traveling via plane, train, bus, and the occasional automobile, we were really looking forward to getting back to our favorite kind of travel: the hiking kind. When we arrived in the car park for our little two day trek, it was overcast (we really do seem to bring the rain with us wherever we … Continue reading
Our first motoring adventure in New Zealand
We took a few restful days in Piha readjusting our clocks, enjoy the view out the back door, and “packing,” which consists more of an explosion of our junk eventually leading to some semblance of organization. But it was time to get started doing the things that we came here to do, get hiking and … Continue reading
New Zealand, Here We Come!
After exploring temples to our little hearts content, we made our way across the Cambodian/Thai border and back to Bangkok. Down the street from our hotel were several food carts and we ventured out for our last scrumptious street meal, settling on a place that had a little alley full of tables and delicious noodles. … Continue reading
Top Five: The Temples of Angkor
The rumors are true: the Temples of Angkor are incredible. And enormous. It’s hard to describe the size and detail that are involved in these temples – one minute the sheer scale of the temples is taking your breath away, and the next you are busy ogling the intricate details of the bas-reliefs. We spent … Continue reading
Crossing Borders
It seemed that whenever we mentioned to anyone that we were heading to Thailand for a month the next thing that came out of their mouth invariably was, would we be heading to Cambodia to see the temples of Angkor Wat? When they sensed any hemming and hawing in our response they told us in … Continue reading
Angthong National Marine Park
After sitting around and doing nothing (wonderful, wonderful nothing) we decided we needed to see some things. Fortunately, for us, just a quick boat ride away is Ang Thong Marine National Park. It is a cluster of about 40 islands sitting nearly 40km to the west of Ko Phanagn and running just north of the … Continue reading
Heading (further) South
After temple hopping and street food eating and cooking school, we decided it was time to go do a little bit of nothing on a beach. We also decided it was time to take a break from our slightly enormous packs. It’s one thing to lug all sorts of things around in the mountains when … Continue reading
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