Category Archives: Destinations

Our New Zealand road trip itinerary

A New Zealand road trip was our #1 bucket list item for years, so to [...]

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Christchurch: a city rebuilding

After seeing so much beauty throughout the South Island of New Zealand, it was a [...]

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Gorgeous Aoraki/Mount Cook and Lake Tekapo

Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park and Lake Tekapo on the South Island of New Zealand are two [...]

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Arrowtown, Wanaka, and Twizel in New Zealand

After our stint in Fiordland on the South Island of New Zealand, we started making [...]

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Oamaru, Dunedin, and the Otago Peninsula

Our introduction to the South Island of New Zealand was by plane. We flew from [...]

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7 things to do in Wellington

We ended our tour of the North Island of New Zealand in windy Wellington. It turned out [...]

Hawke’s Bay and Wairarapa regions

Next up on our New Zealand North Island itinerary… wine country. From Taupo, we drove east to [...]

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Geothermal hotspots Rotorua and Taupo

From Auckland, we drove south to explore more of New Zealand‘s North Island. We hit two places in [...]

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Auckland and Waiheke Island

We arrived at Auckland Airport very excited. We had always wanted to come to New [...]

How to spend a long weekend in Adelaide

We drove to Adelaide from Melbourne via the Great Ocean Road. We arrived to the really [...]