Dear friends, As I mentioned in a previous blog, my friends Pauline and Mark have a Nursery Garden and Landscaping business with an emphasis on unusal and very scented plants, so their company name 'SCENTSATIONAL' is very appropriate. Their garden is full, full of fabulous plants and now in the summer many of the flowers [...]
Dear friends, On Canada Day, this year celebrating 150 years, we began of course with a truly Canadian breakfast - pancakes, bacon, maple syrup and strawberries - YUM! We were joined by another old primary school friend, Judi and her husband Tim. I had found an old school photo from 60 years ago, and Pauline, [...]
Dear friends, Travelled from Denver to Victoria via Vancouver to spend a week on Vancouver Island catching up with one of my oldest friends from Primary School Days, Pauline and her husband Mark. The views as we approached Vancouver were pretty spectacular and we had a great view of Mt Baker as well. Hard to [...]
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 penultimate blog of the Road Trip is about a wonderful day on Waiheke Island in the Hauraki Gulf, just 40 minutes by ferry from Auckland city. We were excellently guided around the island by a new friend Kavin and in the company of our Auckland host Brian, and wow, what a great [...]
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 [...]