Week 1Thursday December 10, 2009  After about 30 hours of elapsed time and a couple of delayed flights, we were greeted with sunshine and 70 degrees at the Auckland airport. As you can see, I have included before flight and after flight photos).   After an hour of getting baggage and clearing customs (including the cute beagle who sniffed out the scent of an apple that had been in Buzz's backpack) we got our rental car and headed north to Red Beach and the...

We leave for New Zealand a week from today. Everything Buzz needs is neatly packed in a rolling duffel bag. Every summer garment I own is piled on the bed in the guest room as I try to decide what to take and what to leave! I need outfits, he just needs clothes! We have our camera, ipod, computer, gps and all the attendant cords, chargers and transformers as well as a US cell phone and a NZ cell phone. Our electronic paraphernalia takes up most of one carry on ba...

We leave for New Zealand a week from today. Everything Buzz needs is neatly packed in a rolling duffel bag. Every summer garment I own is piled on the bed in the guest room as I try to decide what to take and what to leave! I need outfits, he just needs clothes! We have our camera, ipod, computer, gps and all the attendant cords, chargers and transformers as well as a US cell phone and a NZ cell phone. Our electronic paraphernalia takes up most of one carry o...

We left Tucson last Thursday and drove along the I-10 highway to Las Cruces, NM. We had never driven along a road that warned about high winds so often. Our friend, Helen Tuefferd, in Las Cruces had warned us that the highway is sometimes closed because of the dust blowing across I-10 causing zero visibility. The drive took about 4 hours (at just above the posted 75mph speed limit!). We were about an hour out of Las Cruces when I realized that we had not accounte...

We left Tucson last Thursday and drove along the I-10 highway to Las Cruces, NM. We had never driven along a road that warned about high winds so often. Our friend, Helen Tuefferd, in Las Cruces had warned us that the highway is sometimes closed because of the dust blowing across I-10 causing zero visibility. The drive took about 4 hours (at just above the posted 75mph speed limit!). We were about an hour out of Las Cruces when I realized that we had not acco...