I laughed. “It was supposed to have been a vacation.” A quarantine officer at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport had just asked me why if I’d spent the previous two weeks in Thailand—for business or for...
I wasn’t sure if I would take a Milford Sound tour until a few days before I ended up doing it. After only a couple days driving around New Zealand’s South Island, I had entered...
When it comes to Vietnam, I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that in a couple of weeks, you can get an intoxicating cross-section of this exhilarating land, from...
I get emails from many readers asking about the question of Thailand vs Vietnam. They’d like to visit both countries, they say, but at the moment only have time for one.
If, as you plan your...
We just had an opportunity to drive the 2020 Cadillac XT6 AWD Crossover with enough time to review it. Unfortunately most of our driving was in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx during our recent trip...
My decision to fly Emirates between Christchurch and Sydney was somewhat arbitrary—the Air New Zealand flight I’d been eyeing for weeks before that suddenly surged up in price, even before taking into account all the...
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...
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