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West Coast Spring 2024, Part Three
April 26 – May 13, 2024 With a day to fill and not able to do much physically, we got creative. Our first stop would be at the Riordan Mansion State Historic Park. This park features the duplex home of Timothy and Michael Riordan, lumber baron brothers who married sisters, Caroline and Elizabeth Metz. The […]
West Coast Spring 2024, Part Two
April 26 – May 13, 2024 Our last day in Zion would be a simple one, that is we would get on our bikes and ride up the canyon to the end. We took off in the late morning and rode into the park, a gradual climb of about 500 feet that was easy to […]
West Coast Spring 2024, Part One
April 26 – May 13, 2024 We returned home from New Zealand and Australia and immediately drove north to Oakland to help celebrate our granddaughter Gemma’s birthday, returning home the following week to catch up on all that we had missed while being gone. I saw my GP about the hip and fortunately had a […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Sydney, Part Three
February 2 – 6, 2024 As mentioned in the prior post, our outing for the day would be to the Hyde Park Barracks, directly across the street from the park of the same name. Joanna and I rode over in an Uber from the Tramsheds while the rest of the gang walked the roughly three […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Sydney, Part Two
February 2 – 6, 2024 The next day would feature another highlight, a tour of the world-famous Sydney Opera House. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbor, it is widely regarded as one of the world’s most famous and distinctive buildings and a masterpiece of 20th-century architecture. Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, but completed […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Cairns, Part Two
January 28 – February 1, 2024 Our Skyrail journey ended at the Kuranda station, where we disembarked and had to hike a short distance up to the town itself. A cute little touristy destination with loads of the kinds of shops one finds in these locations, we stopped for a bit to grab a cold […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Cairns, Part One
January 28 – February 1, 2024 Our flight the next morning to Cairns at 12:30 pm would again give us plenty of time to clean up and check out of the Airbnb and still get to our flight. We’d be flying for the first time on Jetstar, an Australian low-cost airline headquartered in Melbourne and […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Melbourne, Part Three
January 22-27, 2024 As mentioned in the previous post, the next day would be another long and rewarding one. We would be heading out to Phillip Island for a day of sightseeing, wine tasting, and a visit to the famous nighttime penguin parade with Phillip Island Penguins, Wine Tasting and Dinner from Melbourne through Viator. […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Melbourne, Part One
January 22-27, 2024 Our flight from Queenstown to Melbourne via Virgin Australia was scheduled to depart at 2:30 pm for $248 per person one-way. The afternoon departure meant we didn’t have to rush out of the house and could take our time cleaning up and eating most of the leftover food so that we didn’t […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Queenstown, Part Four
January 17-21, 2024 Quite a few people we’d encountered along the way recommended Botswana Butchery to us and so we were glad to be able to enjoy its food and very good service. The menu, while diverse to an extent, would still be steakhouse focused, which had been the single constant so far in our […]
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