Auckland, NZ After one night of “roughing it” at a local hostel, we decided that the extra few dollars were definitely worth the amenities of a “serviced apartment.” So today we moved to a very nice (but still very affordable) serviced apartment called the Waldorf. (Apparently no relation to the American ultra-expensive Waldorf chain.) The [...]
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Auckland, NZ Sometimes the world is just not spinning your way and today was definitely one of those days for us. Everything started off just fine. We checked out of the hotel where we stayed the last 2 nights and headed to the hostel in Ponsonby where we had made reservations the night before. Ponsonby [...]
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Auckland, NZ Since they still speak English in New Zealand we haven’t had too much of a culture shock, but there have been some slight differences we’ve noticed. For instance, rugby is seen all over – on several tv stations, on ads around the city, even inside Sky City. Dan even decided to get in [...]
It rained on and off today, but we were able to make the most of it. We found it interesting that very few people use umbrellas here. Maybe it’s because it’s a city, maybe it’s because there are a lot of overhangs, or maybe it’s because it was just raining on and off. We’re not [...]
We arrived at the Auckland airport around 5am. We had a bit of an “oh no!” when we thought my bag had not made it, but we ended up finding it a different area of baggage claim. It wouldn’t have been the end of the world to lose it, but it would have been a [...]
We started our trip in Charlotte, NC by taking a one way rental to the airport where we hopped on a plane to San Francisco. We were supposed to have an hour and a half to find our way to the next airplane, but due to leaving late in Charlotte we arrived with only 40 [...]
Sunday night (the night before we had to leave) we found a leak under our kitchen sink. All we could think was, “Why now?”. We tried to fix it before we left, but we just didn’t have enough time to get it done. We went out and bought a faucet since that seemed to be [...]
Today we had the fantastic opportunity to be part of the Clark Howard event in Durham. I was asked to be part of this event several months ago, so this has been a long time coming. I was really excited about how the event went, and of course very excited to tell 2,500 people about [...]
We’re coming down to the wire — and we are almost ready to depart for New Zealand. As we mentioned, we went ahead and booked two nights in Auckland. As of yesterday, we have also booked a flight to Dunedin (which is in the southern part of the southern island) on May 12. Our plan [...]