Category Cultural Attractions (Museums, Historical Sites, Etc.)
West Coast Spring 2024, Part Five
April 26 – May 13, 2024 For our last day in Tucson, we committed to being tourists. As we’d done much of the town in prior trips, this time around we’d be heading to sights some drive away. Our first stop would be Kartchner Caverns, about an hour out of town. We first encountered the […]
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 […]
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 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 Two
January 22-27, 2024 Finished with lunch, we climbed back on board the van and drove a short distance inland to Maits Rest Rainforest Walk, a half mile circuit through a cool temperate rainforest in the Otway Ranges in Great Otway National Park. It contains towering myrtle beech trees, some 300 years-old, and an understory of […]
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 […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Christchurch, Part Two
January 14-16, 2024 After finishing our coffee and snacks at the boathouse, we again hopped into two Ubers for a drive to our second adventure of the day, the International Antarctic Center. It is in a campus containing the Christchurch bases for New Zealand, US, and Italian Antarctic Programs, and comprises administration offices, warehousing, an […]
New Zealand/Australia 2024 – Wellington, Part Three
January 8 – 10, 2024 We exited the shuttle and with some time still left in the afternoon, walked across the roundabout next to the Cable Car Station to take in the Museum of the same name there. The Cable Car is a funicular railway between Lambton Quay, the main shopping street, and Kelburn, rising […]
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