Trip: The World (Part 4)
There are [156] stories from my trip: The World (Part 4)
USA | Friday, 17 Apr 2020 | Views [358]
IN YIDDISH THEY SAY "MANN TRACT, UN GOTT LACHT." Well She is certainly having a chuckle at the expense of all of us during this Covid pandemic. It is sunny and 80°F on the Island of Hawaii where we planned to be . Denver, where ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 14 Apr 2020 | Views [287]
THE WINTERY WEATHER ON EASTER WEEKEND made “Cower-From-Covid” a little more palatable. We did have to brave the cold Sunday morning and arrange for a new rental car. Denver International Airport was deserted and I was pleasantly ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 8 Apr 2020 | Views [321]
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A COUPLE OF MILES CAN MAKE. This morning we moved into our new digs, a third-floor, one-bedroom apartment that we found through AirB&B only two miles from Upton Suites. We are renting month-to-month and it looks as ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 7 Apr 2020 | Views [250]
COLORADO CURRENTLY RANKS # 15 IN THE COUNTRY with 5500 cases of coronavirus cases and 180 fatalities. We suspect that the relatively high number of infections stems from the ski season before preventive measures were implemented.... Read more >
USA | Monday, 6 Apr 2020 | Views [305]
WE SHOULD BE TOASTING OUR BUNS IN HAWAII. Instead we’re sitting on our butts in a hotel in Colorado where it snowed on Friday. But things could be worse . . . and they probably will be before they get better.
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USA | Friday, 3 Apr 2020 | Views [304]
WE SKATED THROUGH IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS at Honolulu’s Daniel Inouye International Airport thanks to our empty flight and the Covid-19 cancellations. The only place we could find to wait that had seating, air-conditioning and an electrical ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 29 Mar 2020 | Photo Gallery
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NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 28 Mar 2020 | Views [320]
IT SEEMS COUNTER-INTUITIVE TO BE LEAVING NEW ZEALAND — with fewer than 500 cases of Covid-19 and zero deaths — for America, with the most cases in the world. But that’s what we are doing and we consider ourselves lucky ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 27 Mar 2020 | Views [314]
THE WEATHER IN DUNNEDIN WAS A PORTENT OF THE DARK TIMES to come. It’s a charming city, often compared to Edinburgh, but on both occasions when we visited, it was cold and gloomy. The first signs of the impending shutdown of the country ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 24 Mar 2020 | Views [307]
THIS IS THE LITTLE BUGGER THAT’S BEEN CAUSING all the trouble. Not so much here in New Zealand where there are only 100 cases of Covid-19. Just the same, everyone is waiting and watching and preparing for the worst.
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NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 21 Mar 2020 | Views [316]
EVEN IF HE HADN’T BEEN A KIWI, Peter Jackson couldn’t have found a better Middle Earth than New Zealand. It’s time and place of hobbits and heroes, dwarves and elves, orcs and trolls and wizards, both good and evil. It’... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 11 Mar 2020 | Views [330]
AKAROA ON THE BANKS PENINSULA IS FULL OF SURPRISES. There seems to be a new cove or bay with spectacular views around every hill, not surprising since the peninsula was formed by not one, but two volcanoes. Akaroa means “long harbor”... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 8 Mar 2020 | Views [331]
CHRISTCHURCH WAS ONE OF OUR FAVORITE places when we visited New Zealand fifteen years ago. I’m reluctant, however, to return since the earthquake that devastated the city in 2011. We’ll get there — but not today.
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NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 6 Mar 2020 | Photo Gallery
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NEW ZEALAND | Thursday, 5 Mar 2020 | Views [322]
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THOSE VIDEOS OF FLOCKS of birds — starlings, mostly — swooping and soaring in unison like a school of tightly packed sardines? Birders call these maneuvers “murmurations.” Well, we learned today ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 1 Mar 2020 | Views [294]
TAURANGA MAY BE NEW ZEALAND’S ANSWER to Newcastle with it’s busy port but one would be hard-pressed to find lodging as wonderful as City Suites in a less urban setting.
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NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 28 Feb 2020 | Views [297]
IF I HAD DONE DUE DILIGENCE I WOULD have realized that Turangi is the trout fishing capital of New Zealand. You would think our lodging, Angler’s Rest Motel, would have been a clue.. Instead I learned that it isn’t possible to ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 23 Feb 2020 | Views [315]
SOMETIMES WE GET LUCKY IN OUR TRAVELS. Fortune smiled on us twice this weekend. Kiwis Ron and Rita — more about them later — had invited us to stay in their lovely Napier home. Napier, you may remember, was razed by a devastating ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 21 Feb 2020 | Views [358]
ROTORUA STINKS. ‘NUFF SAID? Geysers, mud pots and hot springs perfume Rotorua with Eau de Chemistry Lab and thousands of tourists pay handsomely for the experience. But if you’ve visited before like we have — twice ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 16 Feb 2020 | Views [329]
FULLERS 360 FERRY LEFT THE DOCK AT 9:00 “en punto” for the 75-minute trip out to Tiritiri Matangi Island. An hour and a quarter doesn’t seem long on dry land but when the ferry starts pitching and rolling, time seems to slow ... Read more >
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