New Zealand Loves Rugby During my recent stay in Dunedin I had the opportunity to see a rugby match with my wonderful host family the Cookes. It was the 2012 Super 15 kickoff for New Zealand fans with the Otago Highlanders (the local Dunedin team) taking on the Australian New South Wales’ HSBC Waratahs […]
The Road to Mount Cook View Larger Map At 3,755m (12,320 ft) Mt. Cook is the highest peak in Australasia. It is located within a national park and a World Heritage Site. Of course I was going! Having just picked up the Juicy Condo in Christchurch, this would be my first real road trip, […]
MILFORD SOUND, NEW ZEALAND There is a reason why Milford Sound receives over 500,000 visitors a year! This is a phenomenal amount of visitation, especially when you consider that the population of New Zealand is only 4.4 million and has a unique problem called negative population growth. Most of the tourists come during the […]
Following my arrival in Auckland, I traveled 10 minutes south to the home of my CouchSurfing host Chris. Chris, a 38-year-old computer programmer and self-acclaimed geek, was most fun and welcoming. This would be my home for the next three nights until I flew to Dunedin on the south island to connect with my friends. Following […]
I was fortunate to have enough AAdvantage miles to get a free, well $14.10 in taxes, business class ticket to New Zealand on Air Tahiti Nui. From the rapid check-in, I was ushered through security to the One World Alliance private lounge where I whiled away a couple hours on the laptop and sampled […]
That’s right! In six days I will head to New Zealand, without a return ticket. But I’ll get back to that in a minute, I promise. Last year, I spent six months traveling with a backpack through Latin America. I began in Guatemala (a country I fell in love with the year before) and got […]