Kaiwaka Archives - Page 5 of 5

December 25, 2025 2 Comments

Last night, we enjoyed Christmas dinner with our wonderful landlords and new friends, Dave and Eing, who live next door, just a...

December 24, 2025 No Comments

Merry Christmas from New Zealand. It feels both familiar and completely different to be writing those words from this side of the...

December 23, 2025 2 Comments

Tom thanks our many friends/readers who reached out to him with happy birthday wishes; it was yesterday here on this side of...

December 22, 2025 2 Comments

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...

December 21, 2025 No Comments

When people hear that we’re spending time in New Zealand, the reaction is almost always the same. Their eyes light up,...

December 20, 2025 No Comments

Since we’re both still sick with this stubborn virus, even the simplest decisions feel heavier than usual. Lately, just thinking about...

December 19, 2025 2 Comments

We arrived in New Zealand a week ago today, though it feels both longer and shorter than that, depending on the moment....

December 15, 2025 3 Comments

I don’t like sharing this news, but because we’ve always promised transparency in our stories, today I had no choice but...

December 14, 2025 No Comments

Getting here after we disembarked the cruise wasn’t easy, and that’s putting it gently. After weeks of floating predictably from port to...

September 19, 2025 2 Comments

When the owner of the New Zealand alpaca farm suggested we contact her in September to inquire about the property's availability,...