It was a great New Year’s Eve…Photos…Happy New Year to all!…
Last night, New Year’s Eve in this part of the world, we attended a small gathering of only nine of us...
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December 2025 Archive
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Happy New Year’s Eve in this part of the world…
Tonight feels like a gentle pause before the calendar turns, the kind of evening that asks nothing more of us than to...
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The storm proved to be wild with consequences…
Note: WiFi issues are impacting our paragraph spacing today. Yesterday’s storm didn’t arrive with drama so much as persistence. It simply stayed...
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Stormy day in Kaiwaka…Confusion on our site with the dates…
Note: Based on the almost 24-hour time difference between our US-based website and New Zealand, our current location, the dates listed...
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We’re back!…Getting into the groove in this remote area of New Zealand…
Note: Due to the almost 24-hour time difference, this post appears to have been posted on December 27, when in fact...
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Merry Christmas and Happy Boxing Day to everyone who celebrates today!…
Last night, we enjoyed Christmas dinner with our wonderful landlords and new friends, Dave and Eing, who live next door, just a...
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Merry Christmas!…It’s Christmas Day, today in New Zealand!..
Merry Christmas from New Zealand. It feels both familiar and completely different to be writing those words from this side of the...
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It’s Christmas Eve, here in the Southern Hemisphere…A laid back holiday for us…
Tom thanks our many friends/readers who reached out to him with happy birthday wishes; it was yesterday here on this side of...
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Happy birthday, to my dear husband, travel companion and friend…
December 23rd is Tom’s 73rd birthday. Happy birthday, my darling husband. Depending on where you’re standing on the globe, it’s almost his...
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Map with our location in New Zealand…Why did we choose the North Island for our second visit in almost ten years?…
When people hear that we’re spending time in New Zealand, the reaction is almost always the same. Their eyes light up,...
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