Sometimes our best memories of travel are from being in the right place at the right time. Here, Candace remembers a new adventure on the east coast of New Zealand, all while overcoming an old fear.

Sam nudged me awake at a quarter to six. The sky was still dark and I fumbled blindly around for [...]

We were travelling Australia by four wheel drive – a trip which was the culmination of a dream I had had for many years, built upon the tales of a trip around Australia my father did back in his twenties.
Our steed was the legendarily rock solid Toyota Landcruiser 80 series – a vehicle which for many is [...]

You’re single, solo, alone, whatever you want to call it, maybe just free! You want to escape the confining restraints of the life you know, the the life that defines you every day. The life that has become stale and boring. It’s time for New Zealand for One – doing it solo.
New Zealand is the [...]

If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? That may be a hard question to answer so instead of racking your brain I’m just going to throw New Zealand out there.  Why am I just throwing New Zealand out there? Mostly because you can’t go to New Zealand and come back [...]

I recently read an article on travel website about the advantages of traveling when you’re older.  It had some good points, but overall I found it disturbing.  The “older” author was 28.  Twenty-eight! I’m not in my twenties…or thirties.  But I still go schlepping around with a backpack whenever I get the chance.  Here’s what [...]

From a six seated twin otter plane, out of Wellington International Airport, came an exhilarating view of the glorious New Zealand coastline, spectacularly beautiful landscape, vast mountain chains, steaming volcanoes, lush rain forests, wilderness lakes and much more attractions. New Zealand is an Island situated two thousand kilometers South East of Australia across the Tasman [...]