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Road Trip 2019 – Fallout, Boston to DC

Alice and I met in Boston, MA to start a first walking and then Road-Trip covering various Fallout related sites in the US Northeast. We both flew into Logan, then headed to our Airbnb in Cambridge, and helped the jetlag with a visit to the Cambridge Brewing Company. The walking continued the following day, where…
Nashville, Tennessee

Just a very short trip to Nashville and taking in Loreta Lynn’s Birthday concert. Dinner at Merchants then on to the Bridgestone Arena. I’d even heard of some of the stars appearing, Garth Brooks (who I also saw at a Microsoft TechEd event in Dallas!) Brandi Carlile, Jack White and of course Crystal Gayle. The…
Road Trip 2018 – New Zealand – Picton, Malborough and Wellington

I had the best mussels ever at The Captain’s Daughter in Havelock, on route from Abel Tasman Nation Park to Picton. We also went over the Rabbit Island near Nelson. Picton was to be our base to take in the Queen Charlotte Sound and Marlborough Wine Country for the next few days. Marlborough came next,…
Road Trip 2018 – New Zealand – Abel Tasman and Pūponga

The next day we got over to Lake Tekapo as planned, but the clouds and rain didn’t look good for our flight over Aoraki/Mt Cook. A rainy evening spent by the lake, then woke the following day to snow – which not only guaranteed no flight, but had closed roads over the the west, so…
Road Trip 2018 – New Zealand – Dunedin and Oamaru

We used out Airbnb just outside Dunedin as a base to see the Southeast coast and specifically the peninsula. Some great beaches, penguins and generally amazing scenery. Seeing the fairy penguins was certainly one of the many highlights of the trip. The next day we saw a few more, as we visited Moeraki and Oamaru,…
Road Trip 2018 – New Zealand – Queenstown and The Sounds

After a long set of flights from Seattle, through San Francisco and Sydney it was wonderful to finally arrive in Queenstown and have an evening stroll down to the beach, and a glass of wine at Rodd & Gunn before dinner at The Pier. The second day started with breakfast at The Bathhouse, some rain,…