Deb's Road Trip

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...

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...

Lisa's flight was getting into Sydney early this morning (15-October), but mine wasn't getting there until the very early evening. By the...

On Wednesday afternoon our first 'official' tourist thing was a tour of the Sydney Opera House. I had been looking forward to being there...

Today (Monday, 14-October) was a post-IBD meeting tour to Rottnest Island. Rottnest Island is just about 19 km offshore from the city of...

Fremantle is a Western Australia port city in the overall Perth metropolitan area located at the mouth of the Swan River. Fremantle...

I woke up pretty early today, my first full day in Perth (10-October). It looked like a beautiful morning, and I had no place in...