Honolulu, Oahu Hawaii (map) When you’re sitting in your cubicle at work and imagining your Hawaiian vacation, you don’t often picture a large metropolitan city or rush hour traffic as a place you want to spend your two week break. … Continue reading
Northland, New Zealand (map) While traveling through 20+ countries there have been so many things we have learned…of these are the advantages of living in the USA (hence why we are returning home). But we have also learned that our … Continue reading
Rotorua, New Zealand (map) Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand (map) You didn’t think just because in our last update we announced we were coming home that we didn’t have any more travel updates for you, did you? Noooo! The dreaded question and the … Continue reading
Fox/Franz Josef Glaciers, New Zealand (map) Picton, New Zealand (map) After seeing the incredible Earnslaw Burn glacier during one of the best hikes of our lives it was hard to be all that excited about seeing the more touristy well … Continue reading
Queenstown, New Zealand (map) Earnslaw Burn, New Zealand (map) Queenstown is the extreme sports capitol of New Zealand with every crazy sport from bungee jumping, skydiving, pendulum swinging, speed boating, and so on. I call these type of tourist attractions … Continue reading
The Routeburn Track, New Zealand (map) If you google the most famous hike in the world you will find it is the hike to Milford Sound. Naturally we are ones to cave to the peer pressure of the internet but … Continue reading
Dunedin, New Zealand (map) Invercargill, New Zealand (map) They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but many times we find that pictures just don’t capture the energy of a place. To remedy this we thought we would bring … Continue reading
Mount Somers, New Zealand (map) Lake Tekapo, New Zealand (map) After spending a month of camping in Australia and with another month or two of camping in New Zealand coming up we have learned how to just semi rough it. … Continue reading
Grampians National Park, Victoria, Australia (map) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (map) The Great Ocean Road led us to the entry of the Grampians National Park which is known for it’s beautiful waterfalls and high mountain vistas. The park itself was magnificent … Continue reading
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (map) Before arriving in Australia and researching the prices of hostels and cheap hotels we knew we would be camping it a lot. So we tried our luck with the CouchSurfing website to see if we could … Continue reading