So with a very sad heart we had to leave Bora Bora, spending a single night in Tahiti before travelling to Auckalnd in New Zealand. This trip was a bit bumpy becuase of the terbulance, but all in all not uncomfortable - we crossed the dateline and lost a whole 25 hours - therefore no jetlag as we arrive at the time we thought we would only a day later! We had hired a campervan for our whistle stop tour of New Zealand planning on doing both islands in 3 weeks! (we...

We reluctantly had to leave Huahine after 5 nights of staying in the Robinson Cruiso paradise. Although we were happy to leave the irritating mosquitos, which although not anywhere near as bad as Mexico, were a bit of a nuisance. On our last morning we actually got see the sunrise from the sea - something Dave had never seen before in all his travels. So we boarded our Air Tahiti flight which we have been plesently suprised about so far - always on time and v...

Ia Orana all you lovely people. So we have finally made it we are in paradise, unlike Tahiti, Huahine has perfect beaches and gorgeous reefs of turquoise green colour. The island itself is one of French Polynesia's lesser tourist islands, so we had booked a robinson cruiso type accomodation - 2 huts a bathroom and us, in the middle of a lagoon on the island. Actually we were on a Motu - which is a small island that is part of Huahine but completely seperated by ...

Ia Orana (or hello in Polynesian) We have finally made it to French Polynesia - Tahiti to be exact. We arrived from LA after flying Tahiti Nui airline that was actually pretty impressive. Although, when we got here we came across something rather interesting. Tahiti itself has no beaches and the only strip of reef that is right by the airport. So the polynesian scene we were expecting is not the one of Tahiti! A minor upset but since you have to fly into Pappett...

We left Denver at 6am, as we had a huge 12 hour drive through the Rockies to Grand Junction, then through South Utah, Arizona and eventually Nevada. It became aparent that we were in trouble when we started climbing towards the Vale pass - this is around 10,000 ft and one of Colorados premier ski resorts. The road turned into nothing but snow and ice, not fun! Epecially when we saw a 4x4 sliding off the road, soon followed by another car flipped onto its side, ju...