Arriving into Wellington After a scenic 3.5‑hour Cook Strait crossing, we arrived in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital - a compact, windy city where we spent a day bouncing between Mount…
Arriving into NZ & settling in Christchurch Crossing the International Date Line from the Cook Islands to New Zealand meant leaping forward in time and losing an entire day. A…
My first taste of a South Pacific Paradise Leaving the isolated islands of Hawaii behind, it wasn’t long before the deep blue of the vast Pacific Ocean was all I…
From Florida I flew to LA via Houston, then from LA it was nearly six hours to Honolulu. Seventeen hours of travel, six time zones crossed, and by the time…