On Tuesday morning, Buzz did his traditional first day back 10K walk around the perimiter of Feilding. In the past I have done it with him, but not this time. He did it in 1.5 hours. I would have been left in the dust! It was just a quiet day. We went into town and walked around the the CBD..not much has changed. Buzz walked through the Manawatu Gorge track with Max on Wednesday. It is about a 3.5 hour walk through the bush. The gorge is one of the few in the wor...

On Tuesday morning, Buzz did his traditional first day back 10K walk around the perimiter of Feilding. In the past I have done it with him, but not this time. He did it in 1.5 hours. I would have been left in the dust! It was just a quiet day. We went into town and walked around the the CBD..not much has changed.Buzz walked through the Manawatu Gorge track with Max on Wednesday. It is about a 3.5 hour walk through the bush. The gorge is one of the few in t...

We took just over five hours on Tuesday to make the two hour trip from Auckland to Tauranga stopping in the requisite antique and op shops along the way. The highlight of the drive was finding a beautifully developed reserve/rest area in the Karangahake Gorge. The area was not developed when we came through two years ago. We had our picnic lunch there and took a short walk over two suspension bridges. This type of bridge is not my favorite, and I was pleased to b...

We took just over five hours on Tuesday to make the two hour trip from Auckland to Tauranga stopping in the requisite antique and op shops along the way. The highlight of the drive was finding a beautifully developed reserve/rest area in the Karangahake Gorge. The area was not developed when we came through two years ago. We had our picnic lunch there and took a short walk over two suspension bridges. This type of bridge is not my favorite, and I was pleased...

We arrived at Red Beach after 30 hours in transit from Hudson, NH to Auckland, New Zealand and then a 40 minute drive. We left home on New Year's Day and arrived in NZ on Jan. 3rd. Amazingly, Buzz was not tired, and seemed very alert on the drive. The GPS that our clever IT savvy son-in-law, Jon, downloaded to the Garmin worked perfectly, and we arrived to a wonderfuly warm welcome from Jim & Helen. Two years melted away as we caught up on family news. They w...