Usual routine this morning – breakfast and school. Willa’s working on a presentation about her year that she’ll share with classmates in January. We decided to choose categories of stuff...
Repeated our morning program here in Wellington: I worked out in the little gym downstairs, we all got breakfast together and then split up for school — James and I...
It’s weird to have no Thanksgiving day plan. I’ve lived abroad for many a Thanksgiving — and even done several vacations away during the holiday — so it’s not the...
Last night after we checked in we noticed the air condition wasn’t working. We told the staff here at the QT and they quickly said we could switch to a...
Daily Log / New Zealand / Travel Day
by Margaret · Published November 26, 2019 · Last modified November 27, 2019
Pretty rough to say goodbye to the Taupo palace we were living in for the last five nights. Felt like such imposters. The house manager — a guy named Jamie...
Another precious Monday morning. My neck is stiff and sore — slept on it wrong two nights ago then it stiffened up on me. I couldn’t really work out so...
So much of New Zealand tourism is “adventure” and “adrenaline” and/or requires fitness and endurance levels for intense biking, hiking, etc. Not quite our scene yet. But Teddy found the...
Six weeks from today we leave Hawaii to fly home. Eeeeek! A couple days ago we saw a sign for a “Saturday Market” in Taupo. We headed over this morning...
If you don’t follow @sebmodak on Instagram, you should. He’s the NYT travel writer currently traveling around the world for the Times’ “52 Places” feature. His Instagram is so funny...
Bedhead scene at 7 am this morning: This part of New Zealand — like all New Zealand, I guess — has some really beautiful natural landscapes. Today we went to...