It’s not easy to put together a Top 10 Best New Zealand Waterfalls List because it’s completely subjective and limited to each person’s experience with the falls being named. This list is based on…

We were told before we drove up to Milford Sound that they’d been through a dry spell, so some of the waterfalls might not look their best. We were also told a bit of a storm might be moving in from the sea. What followed was a torrential gale that made handling the small caravan […]

This itinerary was the first part of our month-long end-of-the-year (and end-of-the-decade for that matter) trip to both New Zealand and the Cook Islands. This first part focuses only on the New Zealand leg of the trip…

Sometimes Mother Nature dictates what and when you can do any activities, and today was certainly not one of those days where you could do anything. We’ll just have to cross…

As you can see by the title of this page, this itinerary was our honeymoon with a destination wedding in the Land of the Long White Cloud. For Julie and I, this was the trip that opened up our eyes to what was out there in the world…

With the rain coming down harder, we had beat a hasty retreat into the Pass Hut Shelter. I knew this region was one of the rainiest in the world and they sure weren’t kidding…