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I apologized for the delay in posting the second part of our short trip to Arches National Park, we have been busy with weddings (to fund our trips)! The next day of our trip, we literally spent the full day in Arches National Park and saw (I shall say hiked) as much as we could… Read More Arches National Park Part 2
A quick trip to Arches National Park to temporary relief my vacation bug! We took the night flight from Boston to Salt Lake City on Thursday after work scheduled to arrive after midnight at 12:24 am just half an hour to get our rental car before Thrifty closes at 1 am. We had a connection at… Read More Quick Weekend Trip to Arches National Park Part 1
How can I possibly survive 8 months without vacation? Nope, I can’t! I must go somewhere even if it’s a mini vacation so I started to look. It happened to be National Park Service’s 100th birthday this year so a great reason to visit one of the beautiful national parks in the US! And in perfect… Read More Quick Trip to Arches National Park Planning
Our last stop of our 2 weeks New Zealand adventure: Queenstown 🙂 We took the Crown Range Rd again to get back to Queenstown from Wanaka and what a huge difference it made on a sunny vs cloudy day! It was so foggy that we couldn’t see the mountains and lake on the background: We reached… Read More South Pacific Part 11: Last stop – Queenstown & Glenorchy
At first, I was planning 2 nights in Te Anau but once I saw photos of Lake Wanana, I decided to re-adjust my plan so I can stay at Lake Wanaka for 1 night. It was a 3 hours drive from Te Anau to Lake Wanaka was a very scenic one, so far the most… Read More South Pacific Part 10: Lake Wanaka
The drive from Dunedin to Te Anau took almost 4 hours and when we got to Lakeside Motel, I went into the reception to check in, got our key and a map of the drive to Milford Sound. It was one of the few times I stayed at motels since not much choices in Te Anau, the… Read More South Pacific Part 9: Milford Sound
Our New Zealand South Island adventure continued to Dunedin; the drive from Lake Tekapo to Dunedin was around 4 hours and we stopped in Oamaru when we passed by many Asian restaurants – it reminded us lunch time! We saw a big Thai food sign and found parking right near the entrance of Bangkok Recipe Oamaru. We… Read More South Pacific Part 8: Dunedin
With less than 4 hours of sleep to catch our early morning flight at 7:10 AM to Queenstown arrived at 9:00 AM, we were tired but once we stepped out the airport, the fresh mountain air woke us up! We gave Apex Car Rental a call and they sent their shuttle over to pick us… Read More South Pacific Part 7: Stargazing at Lake Tekapo and 3 Hours Hike Mount Cook
Our first “real” New Zealand adventure started with a side trip from Auckland to the colorful geothermal valley of Rotorua. Early in the morning, we checked out the hotel and paid our $30 NZD internet bill for 2 days (yikes) and lugged our luggage up the hill to Europcar. The office just opened but a… Read More South Pacific Part 6: Colorful Geothermal Valley of Rotorua
