Today was a dang hard day but full to the brim of good stuff. We are such die-hards! We did see stars last night, many stars, even a bit of the milky-way, but the sky was not clear enough to see the billions I was hoping to see. Encouraged by simply being here we decided to wake up early-enough to see the sunrise - thinking that it might be one in a million coming over the range of mountains facing the patio of our room. As it turned out, I got two quick phot...

We stayed in Twizel, New Zealand last night - we have fun calling it twizzle - it always makes the locals laugh. Our schedule called for us to drive back to Christchurch today but we panicked again and became concerned we might be missing some of the very best parts of New Zealand by not seeing the western coast. We debated for a long time last night. We settled and consoled ourselves that we would simply go back to Christchurch as planned and treat ourselves ...