This was the first day that we actually had me somewhere in the morning and couldn't just lounge around. Our scuba appointment was back in town and started at 8:00, so we got up about 7:00 ish, got the car back to driving condition, meaning that we put all the stuff that we move in … Continue reading 2022-11-24 — Roll With It

After getting up that morning and writing all those posts in the rain at Whangarei Falls, we begin heading north. North. Chase scheduled our scuba diving trip for the next day, so we had a day to drive north and play around a little bit before all the scuba adventures were supposed to start. The … Continue reading 2022-11-23 — Sea Life, Bushwhacking, and More!

The day began about how it ended: It was gray outside, the sunrise not visible from all the clouds, the rain was pouring down. We've had tons of rain since we've been in New Zealand, pretty much every single day, but this is the first time where it's sort of felt to me like, "ok, … Continue reading 2022-11-22 — Marooned

So... Right before we went to bed, Chase headed down with his headlamp to get a look at the waterfall, because the place that he had found for us to stay at had a waterfall, and we both absolutely love waterfalls. In the dark, though, the waterfall really wasn't much to look at, and he … Continue reading 2022-11-21 — BTP, Part 2

We woke up that morning to a construction truck parked in front of Sophie and a whole crap ton of construction cones lining the roads to the point where we had bed down for the night. 😬 Gratefully, there was a way for us to still get out of where we had stopped for the … Continue reading 2022-11-20 — Cocaine

Oh! One thing I forgot to write about the night before was that on our way to rainbow Falls and on our way back from rainbow Falls, we got stopped by the police to do random breathalyzer testing. Chase was driving, so he got the honor of counting to 10 into the breathalyzer each way, … Continue reading 2022-11-19 — Glow In the Dark

I woke up relatively early again yesterday morning. With the sunlight illuminating the landscape, I was able to see that we had driven far enough north that there weren't as many trees, though the landscape was still a beautiful bright green. I took my morning pill and spent a good little while writing that first … Continue reading 2022-11-18 — Penguin… 😕

I woke up somewhere between 6 and 6:30 on day 3 of the trip, day 2 in New Zealand. I think there were some gentle sprinkles of rain relatively quietly crashing to earth--in contrast to the thunderous falls that echoed in the hidden canyon below. It was in that morning that I realized that we … Continue reading 2022-11-17 — Kiwi Friends, Day 3

Guess getting out of the habit of writing every day has its drawbacks when it comes time for keeping up with what's going on while on vacation. 😬 So much has happened that I might not remember everything, but I will give it a whirl! 😬 Let's see... The plane ride from Los Angeles to … Continue reading 2022-11-16 — Day 2, Better Than Planned

Well, my lovelies, we're off! 🛫 I'm writing this entry sitting in my row-13 window seat at 30-whatever thousand feet somewhere over Arizona or California, I'd guess. My seat was actually 22c, an aisle seat, but little Stephen did another experiment with airport security 😎 and... well... Let's just say I've now gotten on two … Continue reading 2022-11-15 — Takeoff