Deb's Road Trip

I arrived at the ship around 1:30pm Athens time, 30 December. First stop was a short presentation on the ship and the safety...

I know it's April, and this cruise started on Monday, December 30th, 2024. That's just life sometimes. The genesis of my being on this...

Hi all, I'll be spending a few days in far northern California to see family, but my next trip out of the country starts at the end of...

The last official tour of the trip. Lake Wakatipu is a finger lake in South Island, New Zealand. It is about 80 km long (making it New...

I just realized I forgot to show my photos of Mirror Lake. What a beautiful, quiet, shaded under the trees spot to find right along this...

Hi everyone, It's a little sad to finally be getting to this point in the blog. Queenstown is our last true stop on this tour. We left Mt...

The weather isn't looking particularly good, so we set off with all our fingers crossed. Today is a long drive, about 340-ish km. We hope...

Time for another all day tour. Dave - yes, the same Dave - picked us again, but this time there were several more people on this tour...

We met our drive (Dave) at our hotel earlier Tuesday morning for this all day tour. We were the only people on it; we had the car and...

I can't believe that there is only about a week left in our trip. So much to see and so little time. We checked out of our hotel between...

It wasn't really a very auspicious start to our south island adventure. We debarked the ferry in the rain and started walking over to the...

Our flight to Wellington was Friday morning (25 October). Our flight arrived at about 11:30, we collected our luggage, and then met our...

After Hobbiton, it was back to the car and on the road to Rotorua. where we checked into the Regent of Rotorua. We had what they call a...

I first read the Lord of the Rings trilogy when I was about 12 years old. We had been assigned The Hobbit in 7th grade English class. I...

October 22nd, a date I will always remember. New Zealand has been #1 on my list of places to visit for as long as I can remember. And...

Sometimes things just get away from one! Between the rest of my time in Perth , flying to Sydney, meeting up with friend Lisa (going on...

Monday was our last day in Sydney. After the end of the Mensa Australia Annual Meeting and our visits to the Aquarium and Madame...

The Mensa Australia Annual Meeting was over and we had said our goodbyes to friends by late morning. With an afternoon to fill, we...

After our lunch and visit to The Rocks, Lisa headed back to the hotel, and I went over to the Botanical Gardens for a visit. You know I...

This was the travel agent write-up of this tour. "Be touched by the most ancient human culture on earth on a 90-minute leisurely...