Cruise day 30 – Feb 3 Today we docked at Dunedin, completing our last port stop in New Zealand and the first month of our cruise. During the first week as we crossed the Pacific Ocean it seemed like four months at sea would be forever, but now that we have a fourth of it completed time is flying by! […]
Cruise day 29 – Feb 2 We pulled into the bay of this mountainous seaside city around 7:30am and set anchor. This is the New Zealand we remembered from our honeymoon cruise in 2006 – gorgeous mountains surrounding small towns spread around a massive crater that created the terrain millions of years ago. Last time we had stopped at bustling […]
Cruise day 26 – Jan 30 Visit Rotorua (Port of Tauranga), New Zealand – Another brief stop at a beautiful place that we wished we had a lot more time to explore. As all cruisers know, although cruising has many upsides for travelers, one downside is that the stops are too short – usually one full day (or less) each. […]
Cruise day 23 – Jan 27 Visit Bay of Islands (Waitangi), New Zealand – We finally made it to New Zealand, and Bay of Islands was our first of 7 port stops in this country. It was a busy 1-day stop for us, since we added an optional excursion to our already reserved included one. We took the first excursion […]
We (Steve and Mona Liza) retired early at the beginning of 2012, sold our house and almost all of our belongings and moved into our RV. We are pursuing our dream of traveling the U.S. and Canada for several years and seeing everything and everyplace we can.
