6 Reasons You Shouldn’t Skip Wanaka
As small as New Zealand is, I still feel like there are some towns and areas that the average tourist does not even think...
Lord of the Rings Tour: Exploring Middle-Earth with Red Carpet Tours
I was not your average teenager obsessed with boy bands and the latest hair clip fashions (I was a teen in the 2000s —...
What to Pack for a Trip to New Zealand
New Zealand. The Land of the Long White Cloud. A country filled with literally every kind of landscape and climate you can think of...
Completing the Bungee Jumping Trifecta in Queenstown
I was oddly calm as a man I'd never met before helped me tighten a harness around my butt and crotch. Wait, wait wait…...
Up Close and Personal with New Zealand Fur Seals
Have you ever been up close and personal with a seal or sea lion? If you ask me, they are at the same time...
The Day the Young Adventuress Tried to Kill Me
“I'm not really a hiker, Liz.” I didn't keep track of how many times I uttered this to my friend Liz as we were...
Visiting Mount Sunday (AKA Edoras) in New Zealand
The first time I went to Mount Sunday, it was nothing more than a desolate high country sheep station at the end of a poorly paved road....
A Fantastical Helicopter Tour in Kahurangi National Park in New Zealand
It's most likely happened to you. You've found yourself watching a movie filmed in New Zealand — by this point there are a ton...
How and Where to Find Beautiful Lupins in New Zealand
For about 4-5 weeks at the end of each year, the center of New Zealand's South Island bursts into color. Purple and pink and...
Swimming With Wild Dolphins in New Zealand
To anyone cruising casually by, we must have sounded like some sort of demented choir. An out-of-tune, out-of-synch, deranged choir clad in wetsuits and...
Visiting Hobbiton (Yes, This Place is REAL)
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an...
Hunting for Trolls in Piopio
Tom Troll: Don't bother cooking 'em! Let's just sit on 'em and squash 'em into jelly! Bert Troll: They should be sauteed and grilled...
A Day Trip to Waiheke Island
It was about halfway through the ferry ride that I realized I was in trouble. Even though this was my fourth trip to New...
Adventure in the Sky in Auckland
When it comes to adventure sports, Queenstown is “the” place to be in New Zealand. BUT, that doesn't mean that you can't do crazy...
Visting Windy, Beautiful Castlepoint in New Zealand
The day was sunny, but cool. A strong wind was buffeting sand into our faces, so that it crunched when we closed our teeth...
Postcards from New Zealand
It's been nearly a year since my last trip to the Land of the Long White Cloud. And yet there's not a day that...
Rotorua: Smelly, But Awesome
When you ask people the one word that comes to mind when they think of Rotorua, New Zealand, chances are that word will be...
