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This past New Years I attended the Rhythm and Vines music festival in Gisborne, New Zealand. Gisborne is the most easterly city in the world, meaning it’s the first city to welcome the sun every day, and the New Year every year! From Wellington, Gisborne is about a seven hour drive. Hitch-hiking, though, turned this [...]

Travel blogging is the buzz activity of the moment. But it’s a lot harder than people first imagine. Managing a site, writing content and constantly updating it is more challenging than it looks. Make no bones about it. That’s why every day we see new blogs pop up on the web with the intention of [...]

It’s almost too easy for a vacation to turn into a staycation. Plans change, (too much) money gets spent, jobs are found, new interests become stimulated. It’s happened to me more than a few times so I know how quickly plans can change. As a traveler, even when we’re staying in one place, it’s important [...]

It happened quickly and was over before I even had a chance to process what had just happened. It didn’t ripple through Wellington, splitting sidewalks and battering buildings, but the earth literally shook underneath me. And I felt it. Ever since the big New Zealand earthquakes earlier this year, I’ve been a bit fascinated, perhaps [...]

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