Monthly Archives: March 2024
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Whanganui, Part One
January 5 – 7, 2024 Our bus ride today would be one of the longest of the trip, requiring that we head west to Hamilton, and then turn south for Whanganui, our eventual destination. It would take us over seven hours given the number of stops that the bus would be making along the way, […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Tauranga, Part Two
January 2 – 4, 2024 We finished up at the Redwood Grove and motored a short distance to the Living Village. It is a semi-rural geothermal area in the Taupō Volcanic Zone that was the site of the Māori fortress of Te Puia, first occupied around 1325, and known as an impenetrable stronghold never taken […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Tauranga, Part One
January 2 – 4, 2024 We finished at Winona Forever and called a couple of Ubers (Auckland didn’t have any large enough for all five of us) to get us to the Sky City Bus Terminal on Hobson Street, where we arrived soon after. This, our first interaction with the bus system, would be mildly […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Auckland, Part Three
December 28, 2023 – January 1, 2024 Our last day in Auckland would be a lazy one, with Joanna and Marty heading off to the Auckland War Memorial Museum while Kim, Bev and I would Uber to the harbor and stroll about there. The museum is one of New Zealand’s most important museums and war […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Auckland, Part Two
December 28, 2023 – January 1, 2024 Our first full day in New Zealand would turn out to be an exciting one, with a long and exciting e-bike tour in the morning capped off by a nice dinner and then trying to manage to stay awake until midnight. It was a challenge all around but […]
3jmann 
Recent Comments