Dear friends, After our visit to the magnificent Mesa Verde, we drove on for several hours through beautiful forested country with still a number of mesas visible above the trees, with racing streams and small lakes alongside the road and still the snow clad mountains visible beyond. Looks like a lion's head or even a [...]
Dear friends, The Canyon of the Ancients Guest Ranch was a great stepping off point to view some of the other magnificent sights of the SW corner of Colorado, although with the temperatures sitting around 106 F (41 C) we decided to limit our trekking and increase our sitting in the shade with a long [...]
Dear friends, This week I spent a couple of days at the Canyon of the Ancients Guest Ranch in SW Colorado which is owned and run by Gary Adams and his wife Ming. The ranch is a work in progress with the guest houses being up-graded and new buildings added over time. Since I was [...]
Dear friends, This week I am visiting friends in the USA and wanted to share with you some of the great sights and sites they have shared with me as we took a road trip through South-West Colorado. I flew into Grand Junction and stayed the first night with my friends Cary and Dave in their [...]
Dear friends, North, south, east, west .... this last post about our great New Zealand Road trip, is to share some highlights, make some observations and thank all my friends and family who made it such a fun, fascinating and fabulous trip. We travelled through both the South and North Islands and covered some 10,000 [...]
Dear Friends, The last destination on our road trip was Auckland where we had three full days to explore and enjoy the city and surrounds. I had thought to just do one blog, but decided that Auckland city deserved its own story as does the wonderful island of Waiheke where we spent a lovely day [...]
Dear friends, You cannot visit New Zealand and not want to learn about the history and culture of the Maori people of New Zealand, and where better to do this than in Rotorua, famous for its geothermal landscape and strong Maori traditions. The first evening we were in Rotorua we visited Tamaki Village, one of [...]
Dear friends, It has been almost perfect weather during our trip, and even the few rain days we've had have all coincided with 'driving days' so we've been lucky. Leaving the capital city, Wellington, we travelled north and after winding through the Rimutakas, stopped for a delicious big breakfast at Greytown on the recommendation of [...]
Dear Friends, Another glorious day as we drove from Nelson along the winding Queen Charlotte Drive to Picton from where we took the Interislander Ferry to Wellington. The ferry cruises through the beautiful Marlborough Sounds, then across Cook Strait and into Wellington Harbour. A panorama of Queen Charlotte Drive looking out to the Sounds. Blue [...]
Hi friends, We made it to Nelson through some quite heavy rain, the clouds lifting and a weak sun shining through as we arrived. We were warmly welcomed by friends with whom we stayed for aa couple of days and enjoyed an extended family bbq, walking in the hills above the city, lunch at a [...]