After we had seen the glacier and done the 3 hikes combined into 1, it was time to move on.  All the other hikes involved uphill climbs and...

Today it finally rained.  And it rained lightly for the entire day.  So our drive up to the hotel near the Franz Joseph Glacier was dreary a...

Where did the deer come from?   When the first humans arrived at the islands of New Zealand they found no animals except one species of sm...

Aeotoroa is the Maori name for New Zealand.    The first Maori landed on the western side of the North Island.  The great navigator lea...

January 26, 2009, Monday. As the old saying goes, seems we are often a day late or a dime short.  Shortly after noon today we learned...