Wow! What an amazing week we've just had in Rwanda! Most people associate Rwanda with gorillas and the genocide of the 1990s but there is certainly more to it than that. It is a country of beautiful hills and colorful people. Many of the hills are terraced for family farm plots and tea/coffee plantations while others have been set aside as protected parks and forest. One can simply relax watching the clouds rise from the lovely rain forests or hike to their heart...

The adventure continues (and an adventure it is). From Varanasi in the north we took a flight to Kochi/Cochin in the south of India. The South is very lush, green and considerably cleaner (remember its all relative) so at first it was hard to believe we were still in the same country! We toured the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Both are know for agriculture so there is plenty of fresh produce around. Kerela has vast tea, coffee and spice plantations. They also...

Namaste - greetings from India! We arrived here and met up with Rob's sister Liz and her husband Don after two very civilized days in Singapore. Our arrival went surprisingly smooth and our travels have gone well. When we left Singapore we knew life was about to get interesting we just didn't quite know how interesting. Each day is certainly a new adventure here! We spent our first week touring an area known as the Golden Triangle which takes in the cities of Del...

Good morning from Singapore. We arrived last night after a ten hour flight from Auckland. It will be a brief stop - just a chance to break up the trip and adjust to new time zones as we head to Delhi tomorrow morning. Our final week in New Zealand was fantastic. Auckland is a lovely city. It has a population of about a million and is quite spread out along the many bays on the coast so there are plenty of water views. There are also many extinct volcanoes on whic...

Wow, another week has gone by and it's time to update the blog. Time sure flies here. Honestly if Rob didn't have the time and date on his watch we probably wouldn't know what day it was and quite frankly many days it wouldn't matter. The odd day we have set times, and we meet them, but our schedule on this part of the trip has been quite flexible which is nice. After leaving the mountains of the South Island we had a short stop in the city of Christchurch. We wa...