stories of a traveling wilderwoman
Oli popped the question while camping with friends on the 4th of July! I happened to get a campsite last minute for fourth of July weekend at Salmon La Sac Campground along the Cle Elum River. Someone must have cancelled or luck was on my side because I booked a group site two days before…
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We had picked the busiest time to go to Hawaii. I didn’t realize that they had just re-opened their doors to the mainland when we booked our trip, which meant it was pretty hard to get anything booked because everything was full. Somehow we managed to have a full trip, and I found out that…
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The world is open again. Or at least it’s beginning to open again. After 18 months away, I finally got to give my dad and step mom a hug. If you know how close my dad and I are, then you’d know this was a very big deal. As serendipity would have it, our homecoming…
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17 months. 519 days. 747,300 minutes. 44,838,000 seconds. 8 Countries. England. Scotland. Spain. France. Italy. Japan. Vietnam. New Zealand.1 Disease. 1 Pandemic. 1 Worldwide Lockdown. That’s how long it had been since I had seen my best friend in the flesh. My best friend married an aussie guy in Thailand back in 2019, and since…
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During our 16-months of hunkering down in Aotearoa during the pandemic, we spent about 7 of them living in and around Queenstown and Wanaka at different points during our trip. Needless to say it became the heart of us while in Aotearoa and our kiwi built family resided there, so there is where we kept…
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Our plan when we entered New Zealand was to gain a more permanent visa and to settle down in land of the kiwi. We had been working with a lawyer on our application for 15 months whilst in the country and while we were in Auckland discussing going home we found out they didn’t “realize”…
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Though Auckland was mostly rest, I can’t resist a good wildlife encounter. I found the Penguin Passport experience while googling wildlife encounters near Auckland and at first I was hesitant. After giving them a call to dig a little bit into the ethics I found that this is the world’s largest sub-Antarctic penguin colony and…
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On our way to Auckland for our canyoning trip we decided a stop in Whakarewarewa Forest (Aotearoa’s Redwood Forest) for some mountain biking was called for. I’m so glad we made the call to stop for some exercise because this place is beautiful and the riding is so much fun! We only managed to snap…
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Wandering Wild 