January 26, 2023: Our New Zealand Road Trip took us from Dunedin through the Catlins along the wild southeast coast. This remote area rewards the trek: it hosts petrified forests, Niagara Falls, and stunning coastal views.
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January 25, 2023: Dunedin: We joined the party and celebrated Burns Night in Dunedin, New Zealand! Complete with kilts, bagpipes, whisky and of course haggis, it was quite the Scottish soiree.
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January 20, 2023: South from Oamaru enroute to Dunedin lie the bizarre Moeraki boulders, lying on the beach like petrified dinosaur eggs.
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January 20, 2023: The road trip stop at Oamaru gave our first close encounters with New Zealand’s unique wildlife: the world’s smallest penguins, the little blues.
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January 20, 2023: Akaroa. When Hugh Wilson and Maurice White founded Hinewai Nature Park 35 years ago, they were called fools and dreamers. Today, they are local heroes, and Hinewai a treasure.
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January 18, 2023: I found the best run in Christchurch to shake off the January blues and stretch my legs after our ridiculously long flight to New Zealand.
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Updated January 21, 2024 New Zealand boasts some of the most dramatic natural wonders on earth. From remote glacial fjords among the peaks of the Southern Alps to rolling hobbit hills to hot sandy shores, New Zealand astounds.
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August 20, 2023: Enroute to Collioure, Jean and I revisited the magnificent Pont du Gard, standing tall two millennia after the Romans built it to support their growing empire.
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January 10, 2024: Dusk in Collioure is magical. Music drifts from the promenade and locals fill the beach for a night swim as the lights shimmer off the dark waters.
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January 9, 2024: This morning I find my mind drifting back six months to a warm dawn in Collioure, France, when we watched dawn climb over the wine-dark Mediterranean sea.
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