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Routeburn Track

Warning: This blog contains a lot of pictures I have lost track of how many tramps I have done in my life….not that I was actually counting….but let’s just say it has been a lot. I grew up with a redwood forest as my backyard and spent most of my youth rambling around the mountainsContinue reading “Routeburn Track”

Bike Trail Nirvana

Well, we managed to get our mountains of stuff to New Zealand and into the car. Further, my spiffy $9 suitcase made it all the way with out cracking open in the belly of the plane. In Hawaii, I did have a bit of a tense tête-à-tête with Annie over my lovely, if somewhat suspectContinue reading “Bike Trail Nirvana”

Omer Dokey!

I decided to take a bit of a hiatus on the blog while we were traveling around the States on this visit. A blog holiday, so to speak. Needed to refresh the humor. Now we are headed back to Kiwiland and are both excited about it. The cool thing was that it felt like weContinue reading “Omer Dokey!”

Aloha

Credit where credit is due. Annie took the beautiful banner picture for this page. Makes we want to go get a new iphone! After flying up to Auckland from Dunedin in the morning, we got to spend a very exciting day hanging around the Koru lounge at the airport. There was a later flight, butContinue reading “Aloha”

NZ Fish Tank

Well, it’s happened again. I have fallen behind. Doh! But my excuse is that we are distracted and excited about heading back to the States to see some friends and family. I also forgot to download a bunch of pics from my camera and now it is in New Zealand and I am not. ItContinue reading “NZ Fish Tank”

me versus e

There has been an amazing explosion in the number of e-bikes that are out. I think there are more e-bikes than regular bikes. It’s cool. A buddy of mine and I had thought about going into the e-bike business about 15 years ago. We figured the technology would come around, but finally concluded the marketContinue reading “me versus e”

Choice Overload

Life has been good. The weather, in general, is getting warmer. Yeah! Oamaru continues to offer up many good options for fun and exploration, but there have been some less than exciting things too. We came here with no expectation at all that it would be on the list of possible places to live, butContinue reading “Choice Overload”

A Night at the Opera

Things have been going along swimmingly here in Oamaru and we continue to be impressed by the place. Sitting in our Airbnb and looking at the expanse of the ocean, every evening is a treat. It has become exceedingly clear that it was complete luck and quite rare that we had such a close encounterContinue reading “A Night at the Opera”

Yellow-Eyed Steampunk

Oamaru is the steampunk capital of the world. I did not know this before coming here. Well, I didn’t even know what steampunk was, for that matter. Never heard of it. That shows you how non-hip I am. According to the dictionary: noun: steampunk; noun: steam-punk A genre of science fiction that has a historicalContinue reading “Yellow-Eyed Steampunk”

A Whale of a Tail

We left Waitomo, both glad we had come to see the glow worms and very apprehensive about the trip ahead. It wasn’t because the driving from Waitomo to Kaikōura was particularly difficult; it was because it involved another ferry crossing to get from the North Island to the South Island. We were both feeling aContinue reading “A Whale of a Tail”