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January 2, 2026 No Comments

Yesterday, we booked a hotel in Auckland for February 11, and the sense of relief was almost immediate. It’s located within two...

January 1, 2026 No Comments

Over the years of world travel, we’ve made a very deliberate choice when it comes to paying for holiday rentals: we...

December 31, 2025 No Comments

Last night, New Year’s Eve in this part of the world, we attended a small gathering of only nine of us...

December 30, 2025 No Comments

Tonight feels like a gentle pause before the calendar turns, the kind of evening that asks nothing more of us than to...

December 28, 2025 No Comments

Note: Based on the almost 24-hour time difference between our US-based website and New Zealand, our current location, the dates listed...

December 27, 2025 2 Comments

Note: Due to the almost 24-hour time difference, this post appears to have been posted on December 27, when in fact...

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...