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 […]
YOSEMITE HD from PROJECT YOSEMITE I have summited Half Dome and Yosemite Falls (twice). I have hiked numerous trails in Yosemite, some on multiple occasions. I am blessed to have this national treasure almost in my backyard. This video from the Project Yosemite really captures an essence of Yosemite. I suggest headphones, then click play, then 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 […]
INTI RAYMI During the reign of the Inca Empire, the Inti Raymi or Festival of the Sun was the most important of four ceremonies celebrated in Cusco, the historic capital of the Incas and a present day World Heritage Site. Last celebrated by an Inca Emperor in 1535, it was subsequently suppressed by the Spanish […]
Before I started on this marathon road trip, I made plans to meet up and camp with two friends in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains. Roughly two weeks into my journey and with no further contact, would we actually find each other at… Blue Lake, Sierra Nevada, California View Larger Map Blue Lake is […]
A Photographic Essay Bryce Canyon National Park Having visited Utah’s other four national parks and exploring much of the Colorado Plateau over the years, I was especially excited to have finally arrived at Bryce Canyon National Park. Bryce is relatively small, only 53 square miles. Over the last 200 million years the land has been […]
Glacier National Park and The Road to Bryce Canyon NP View Larger Map Day Three For my third and final day in Glacier National Park, my plan was to take half a day exploring the Two Medicine area of the park. Leaving the motel in East Glacier, Montana, a short drive across the old […]