Happy Holidays from New Zealand! We wish we were back in America celebrating Christmas with you all, but this isn't so bad. 4 of our LA friends are meeting us in a couple of days for one last adventure before we come home. We will see the rest of you in a month! Love, Matt and Nat

Good-day Mate! After 13 months of travel, logistics and sore backs, we opted to splurge and take a 14-day cruise from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand. Since we bought the cruise the day before departure, we were ill-prepared for the "formal" nights on-board. Imagine 1,500 evening gown and tuxedo clad couples (all north of 75 years-old) milling about the ship -- champagne flutes in-hand. Down in steerage, I put on my Sunday-best -- flip-flops, jeans and...