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Australia Road Trip: Week Two
On Monday February 9th we left Adelaide and drove to Port Pirie. We drove through a whole lot of nothing! Beautiful in its own right. Unfortunately, the place we stayed at, Travelway Motel, was less-than-desirable. It was a simple motel which was fine, but everyone smoked on the patio in front of their rooms and…
Australia Road Trip: Adelaide
We arrived in Adelaide on Thursday, February 5th for a four night stay. We spent the night at the YHA Adelaide Central, a hostel right on the centre of town. It was a little tight having us all in one room and the shared bathroom wasn’t ideal, but it was nice to have a large…
Australia Road Trip: Week One
On Sunday, February 1 we made our way to the Melbourne airport to pick up our rental car for our long road trip. Our first leg was to Apollo Bay with a few stops along the way. Our first stop was at Anglesea Golf Course to see kangaroos that populate the course. We saw them…
Wrapping Up Our Time in Melbourne
We spent another lovely week exploring Melbourne and enjoying time with our friends. We started the week off with a trip into the city to go up to the Melbourne Skydeck and grab a delicious meal in Chinatown. The views from the top of the sky deck were quite impressive! On Tuesday, January 27, the…
More Fun in Melbourne
We continue to love our time here in Melbourne! We enjoy the city but also love our little suburb. We’ve been slowly working our way through each restaurant, shop and dessert stop on the Main Street. The amount of joy we get from having so many wonderful spots within short walking distance is making us…
Arriving in Australia
On Friday, January 19th we arrived in Australia for the next part of our trip. We will likely (hopefully) spend 10 weeks exploring this vast, beautiful country. We started our trip in Melbourne because Steffen has had a life-long dream to go to the Australian Open which is running from January 12-February 1st. He, Hannah…
5 Days in Christchurch
We ended our six week trip to New Zealand’s South Island with five days in Christchurch. Christchurch suffered a devastating earthquake on 22 February 2011, and they are still feeling the effects. The February 2011 earthquake came six months after another big one, so the buildings and infrastructure were already weakened. It also was on…
Twizel, Lake Tekapo and Aoraki (Mt Cook)
We spent four nights in miniature cabins at Lake Ruataniwha Holiday Park & Motels in Twizel, a small town in the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand which was a great jumping off point for exploring the area. When we arrived, we were quite surprised by the size of the two cabins…
Epic Drive East
We left Haast early Wednesday, January 7th and headed east for one of the most beautiful drives we’ve been on. I think the most amazing part was the diversity of the nature–we started in the lush rain forest, passed by several turquoise lakes, came across the arid hills of Otago and ended with a visit…
Township of Haast
We spent four days just outside of the township of Haast at the Haast Beach Motel. We had our own little apartment and we stocked up on food ahead of time, which was good because there was only one small grocery store and a couple of restaurants in town. On Sunday we drove towards Jackson…
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