Upon leaving Queenstown Saturday morning, the Frank Josef Glacier walk was far from the top of my mind. Most immediately, I wanted to re-attempt the so-called Blue Pools Track—the pools, if you’ll recall, had been...
Before I landed in New Zealand’s largest city, I found myself far more pre-occupied with the idea of day trips from Auckland than I did when I actually arrived. You see, in spite of having...
“Do you know which mountain that is?” the man whose legs I was sitting between asked, as the rickety biplane neared its final cruising altitude.
I played dumb even though I’d spent two days at the...
The night before I made my way to Lake Tekapo, I dreamed of a plane crash. Thankfully, no such fate befell me as I flew from Auckland to Christchurch, which makes sense: A Qatar Airways...
Driving southward through the Central Otago region early Wednesday morning, I laughed when I realized that my next three days would focus far less on things to do in Queenstown itself, and more on destinations...
The scope of things to do in Lake Taupo, at least the ones I would be tackling during my trip there, narrowed before I even left Auckland. Waitomo Caves, it seemed, prohibited photography, at least...
I was mentally combing through my list of things to do in Auckland when the obnoxious Upper Midwestern voice began blaring from the seat behind me. “Did you know,” the woman asked her husband, precisely...
“Plastics!” Yeah, it’s everywhere … not just in grocery store aisles and department stores and every other commercial outlet you can think of, not to mention your own cupboards and closets and trashcans, but on...
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