"The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see." ~G.K. Chesterton I've been trying to cram everything into these last ten days, and it's been pretty tiring. Here's another quick update on what I've been doing. After Mt. Aspiring National Park, I was in Wanaka and wanted to go even further south to the city of Queenstow...

so i'm still waiting for my luggage. i called the baggage claim this morning and they said it had arrived and that it was being delivered. but i've already had to check out of my hostel, so i guess i will have to check back in with them to see if it's come. i'm meeting my host family this afternoon in town. helen and darren dumble, and their 3 y...

Well, it's been a while. Before leaving Melbourne me, laura, Kerstin, Kat and her partner Victor went out for the evening at the docklands, we had a lovely meal and had a firework display, which no one knew about LOL, but a great night. We arrived in Sydney on the 1st of December and we stayed at Doc and Lachlans unit in Cronulla which is suburb...

Christchurch is a pretty cool city with a very English theme to it. There are gorgous well kept victorian houses everywhere, the main square is lovely and there are alot of arts and museums everywhere. Was so hot there the day we arrived. There are the usual casinos and bars but as usual Conor dragged me to the botanic gardens! Everywhere we go ...

Fri. Abby went to the hot springs. I've had this bad cold since Mon. which has been getting worse - decided I needed to rest. Stayed in Hanmer for 2 nights & yesterday came to Christchurch, the largest city of the So. Isld. We are staying with the parents of a young lady Abby worked with. We had a delicious lamb roast dinner. Lamb is very po...

Well, the time has finally come, we aren't really sure if we should be sad (our trip is ending) or happy (to get back home). It seems such a long time ago we gathered with the scouts in Auckland and now we're just about the last of that group to return home. It's been a long day for us. Starting 6am LA time, we filled our last day at Universal S...

Tuesday, August 7, 2007 Had a chance to say farewell to my travelling mates on Stray before heading off for a walk on the beach. Beautiful sunny morning. It was a nice way to start the day...not one other person on the beach! I love how the sun sparkles on the water in the morning and listening to the birds squawk at each other and the sound of ...

After a wonderful 8 weeks in Australia, we were ready to start the next part of our travels - 6 weeks in New Zealand - the land of the long white cloud! Our first impressions as we flew over the mountains couldn't have been any better, the views were breathtaking and we're really looking forward to exploring the striking scenery ourselves over t...

It was pretty hard to say my goodbyes in Sydney, for in a short period of time I got to get close to quite a few people. Landing into Christchurch at 10pm was like finding myself in an English market town somewhere in the countryside in a day of early Autumn, the blue hot Sydney skies turned gray and moist,the sleepy river Avalon flowing serenel...

In Christchurch we were greeted by Loren and Tori who had just finished cleaning up the house and hadn't had lunch yet. So the logical place to go was, of course, Denny's. It might have been the best meal we have ever eaten but we couldn't really tell because we finished in about 3 minutes. We literally had the entire restaurant watching us in a...