Today was a shorter walk day from Furneaux Lodge to Punga Cove (about 4 hours) and it was overcast and raining lightly when we woke up so we decided to wait to see if it would stop before we started our walk. We had our breakfast and went off to the dining room to collect […]
Read MoreToday was the start of our long, 5-day, 71 km walk along the Queen Charlotte Track. I heard about the track in 2013 from a woman was a member of Prairie Pathfinders Walking Club in Winnipeg. I had studied the route map many times over the course of the last year. We decided to go with […]
Read MoreScheduled for today was a short hike in preparation for the next five days but that did not happen. For one thing, my brain was tired from days, weeks really, of planning every detail of this trip and now executing it. While my body was willing, my mind was resisting. Plus, last night on our […]
Read MoreEarly start this morning at 5:00 am to be ready for the shuttle to pick us up at 6:00am to take us to the Christchurch Railway Station. We checked out of our cute little home for the last 4 days and waited for the shuttle at 5:55am. By 6:15, it still had not arrived and […]
Read MoreWe were supposed to visit the Botanical Gardens today and go punting on the Avon River but our plans changed yesterday and we did the botanical garden walk about and skipped the punting experience. Instead, we booked a day of 17 stop, Hop-On, Hop-Off city tour on the Christchurch Tram. I booked it lat night […]
Read MoreToday was our planned beach day but the day didn’t go as we planned. As with any of my vacation plans, they are subject to change as the need arises. In this case, the need arose. We had a hearty breakfast and headed out to get the # 28 bus which was a two minute […]
Read MoreNo jet lag to get over. A bit surprising because with a 19 hour tine difference, I was expecting to spend a couple of days bleary eyed, but nothing. We got up at a decent 8:00 am and decided to walk to the Christchurch Farmer’s Market in Ricarton, which was about 40 minutes through the […]
Read MoreFinally… we are in Christchurch! We were supposed to leave Chicago on Wednesday evening at 7:00pm but the Air New Zealand flight was an hour late leaving so we were an hour late arriving in Auckland. The flight and service was really good with roomy seats that slid forward when reclined so that it was […]
Read MoreOff and running – or to be more precise, off and flying. We woke up really early today (4:15am) to get ready for our 7:50am flight from Winnipeg to Chicago. That was not our original plan when I booked with United Air. We were supposed to leave at 10:45am to get into Chicago at about […]
Read MoreWow. It’s almost that time. In just over two weeks, I’ll be heading to New Zealand and then Australia. Why those places? Robin wanted to see Australia. I wanted to walk the 70 kilometer Queen Charlotte Track in New Zealand. So we both get to do what we want; and together. The entire trip is 17 days. […]
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