New Zealand

Today we officially began our NZ South Island road trip. We had the usual start of checking out by 10. Let me just take a moment to rage about the rental car we have. They “upgraded” us to a Mini Countryman, which is like a normal-sized Mini. Should be called a maxi. It is a…

As predicted yesterday, we did literally nothing today. It has been cold, very windy, and very rainy since this morning. We have plenty of food and leftovers from previous dinners so we had no reason to leave the house. Millie and I took a brief walk during a break in the rain and bought some…

We had another late sleep in and an exceptionally lazy morning. I don’t know if it’s the small time change, the feeling of Fall in the air, our small and cozy Airbnb, or if we’ve just lost all motivation at the tail end of our trip… but it’s been a very lazy week or two.…

We had such a boring day today, it barely warrants a post. We woke up late-ish (8:30) due to the time change. Millie spent two whole hours on my phone FaceTiming friends at home. Then she drew for probably another two hours. We had plenty of food in the house and just kept making coffee…

Christchurch, what a name! Boring transit day today. We had to set alarms for 6AM to be on the way to the airport at 7. We returned the rental car. Our first flight was to Melbourne and uneventful. We had a tiny bit of stress getting to our second flight because we bought two separate…