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Mount Cook, New Zealand
On our way to Mount Cook, we stopped off near Lake Tekapo, the site of among other things, a tiny picturesque little church called the Church of the Good Shepherd, which overlooks the lake. A fellow traveler in Chiang Mai told us about it, but if Bev's eagle eyes hadn't picked it out, we would have driven right past it. We walked into the church, sat in the front pew, and looked out through the large picture window that frames a fabulous view of the lake and mou...