Bali

“I didn’t like Bali!” Now before you judge me, I was pregnant in Bali, and I spent a great deal of time throwing up, unable to eat and unable to stand the heat or do many activities. Marcin always says, “you didn’t hate Bali, you were pregnant in Bali!” Looking back he is right, I…

TOP GUN Australia

“I feel the need….the need for speed”……. “You can be my wingman anytime” ……  and of course the famous and heavily used,  “Talk to me Goose”, all uttered by our favourite neighbourhood Scientologist in the 1986 hit “TOP GUN”.   Marcin and I had our own little Top Gun experience in Australia, courtesy of our…

The Cook Islands

When Rarotonga first comes into sight out of the plane window, your first thought is “How the heck are we landing on that!”  The question is soon answered after going into what can only be described as a dive bomb, hard landing at the edge of water and then a deafening roar of brakes and…

New Zealand – North Island Outdoor Adventures

Our North Island outdoor adventure consisted of both planned and unplanned activities, we conquered Great Walks, Volcano’s and walked, albeit not easily, into Mordor. We have compiled a few clips of these adventures into a short video below. Our first outdoor adventure was our second Great Walk, the Whanganui Journey.  Even though it is labelled…

New Zealand North Island

Our  journey in New Zealand has come to an end and sitting here in the Cook Islands it seems like it was so long ago, but then I see the blackened toenail I am about to lose and Marcin limp by and I realize it was only a few days ago.  New Zealand really is…

New Zealand & the South Island

If we thought we knew little about Australia, it turns out we knew even less about New Zealand.   Much like Australia, New Zealand is just so very far away; it is small, a little bit bigger than Britain and smaller than Newfoundland and Labrador.  It has a small population and causes literally no trouble…

Australia

  Australia   We spent 3 1/2 weeks in Australia, drove from Melbourne to Cairns and we barely scratched the surface. As good Canadian road trippers, we are use to travelling vast distances to get…. well pretty much anywhere…. so driving for a whole day is only natural.  The mistake we made, and which is…

Ode to Signage

One of the things we loved the most about Australia was just how helpful everyone was.  No matter where we were there was always someone willing to bequeath advice, help you plan a route, suggest interesting places to visit, tell you the best campsites…. or to show you where you went wrong when you turned…

Crikey!

CRIKEY!  That phrase boomed into our living room religiously growing up as my sister and I never missed an episode of “The Crocodile Hunter” series.   The phrase uttered by Steve Irwin was his most well known among his other enthusiastic statements about wildlife including other favourites of ours – “Isn’t she gorgeous”,  “Feisty little…