Halloween – Jelloween

November 7, 2006 No Comments »

Photo: Bill, Ghost (Trent), and Jello…Happy Halloween! It was a long bus day today and a very full bus (I guess everyone wanted to get to Queenstown for Halloween). By now I had a group of ‘new friends’ that I enjoyed hanging out with from the Magic Bus so we all worked together to get […]

The Ice that Warmed my Heart

November 1, 2006 8 Comments »

Let me take you all back to grade school when you learned about glaciers – but probably weren’t paying attention… A glacier is the remaining winter snow that the summer melt has been unable to remove from the cooler heights. Each year another layer of surplus snow is added to the glacier. Time and it’s […]

South Island New Zealand – Picton to Franz Josef Rainy Days

October 31, 2006 4 Comments »

Photo: Welcome to the Gray West Coast To view Photography of New Zealand – click here! We crossed the famous Cook Straight from Wellington (North Island) to Picton (South Island). The ferry was huge! I was expecting something similar to the Tanzania ferry that Cyndi and I took – so I downed my Dramamine that […]

Do you believe in Magic? North Island New Zealand

October 27, 2006 4 Comments »

Photo: Tangariro National Park View my New Zealand Travel Photography When I arrived in New Zealand – I had no plan…very unlike me – but I was hoping for some magic I guess. The good news is that I found it – The Magic Bus! No – I wasn’t eating shrooms nor is this some […]