Corny? Yes. But we freaking bungy jumped on New Year’s Day. I think we earned some corniness. Let’s back up a bit… After spending some more time in the New Zealand sun listening to a music festival, playing cards and taking in the lake view, we got ready for New Year’s Eve dinner at a […]
The Adventure Capital of the World
Immediately on disembarking from our boat transit from the Doubtful Sound we are heading off to our last stop of the trip: Queenstown. A mere two hours later we are arriving in the busiest “tiny town” I’ve seen. You can walk through all of the streets of Queenstown in just one afternoon. Driving though…well that […]
Fjordland
After getting our full of glaciers and green-lipped mussels (a New Zealand specialty) we cruised along the west coast highway on Christmas Day to Wanaka where we stayed a couple of nights and spent the days biking around the huge lake, sampling wines and basking in the sun. After a grueling 6 AM hike up […]
Aotearoa
After spending our first day and night in Christchurch we set off to drive across the country through as much mountainous terrain as possible to reach our first destination of Franz Josef. This approach lead us to some pretty amazing sights along Arthur’s Pass – a stretch of road that meanders through the Southern Alps […]
Midnight Sun
Being in the southern hemisphere is quite special this time of year. For one, I get a break from the 6 months of Fall/Winter I’ve experienced (score!). And secondly, summer here is no joke. The sun rises at 6:30 and doesn’t set until at least 9:15PM. That’s a lot of daylight. And it does strange […]
Blog Fail.
Yes, we know we have a blog…and we’ve become increasingly aware of how infrequently we’ve updated it over the past month. The good news is the lack of blogging is due to an overwhelmingly large amount of fun and exciting things that we’ve been up to. The bad news is that now we have to […]
Moto GP – Not the Video Game
As many of you can tell, Mandy is the primary voice of our blog and I handle the photos and technology. With her gone the past 2.5 months, I just realized that while I still did a few interesting things I wrote about it very little (aka not at all). Since no time is like […]
Distance
Thomas Wolfe once said: You can’t go home again. I actually wrote my college entrance essay on this concept…how poetic that it is that essay that led me to Chapel Hill where Adam and I met…and that these words, many years later, continue to frame our life as we travel, expand our boundaries and pick […]