Tasmania, the tiny jewel of an island off the southeastern coast of Australia, has it all. As a state of Australia, it has the charm and ambiance for which the country is so well known, in addition to an incredible diversity of landscape and scenery, numerous outdoor pursuits, world famous food and wine, and welcoming […]

I’ll never forget how anxious I was as I planned my first trip to New Zealand. Believe or not this was just before we had something called the “Internet”, so books and brochures were the only ways to see what this great country had to offer. Even though I had read about the many adventures […]

In mid-March, I had just finished a great week of visiting resorts in Tahiti when suddenly it was time to return home to a global shutdown. Since then, the world has changed forever, and a new way of traveling is slowly starting to evolve. How we travel will of course change, but the planning and […]

If you’ve been following us for a while, you probably already know – and if you’re a newbie, you will soon find out: we LOVE the Cook Islands. When we travel, we want to be enriched. We want to experience something new that changes our perspective. We don’t want just another postcard worthy location – we want it […]

It’s my only son’s 18th birthday, and he comes running up to me, in public, and gives me a double high-five followed by a hug that literally lifts me off my feet!  If your 18-year-old acts like this all the time, lucky you… Mine does not!  But today we’ve just bungy jumped from the Kawarau […]