Saturday 19th October New York – Washington DC Sunny with drizzly spells - 17’C Our driver Abraham picked us up in his town car nice and early at 8.30am to take us out to the RV collection point in Tappan, New York - which is about a 45 minute drive north from downtown Manhattan. It actually felt like we were leaving the cocoon of New York and straying out into the real world again! Jimmy the manager at Camping World was awesome to deal with and had us out of the depot within an hour, after showing us over our new wheels and doing the paperwork. Our home for the next 10 days is a Ford E-23 Freedom Elite, 23ft class C Motor-home. First port of call was to a huge shopping complex called the Palisades ... read more

Wednesday 2nd Oct Montreal Fine and sunny 20c We had a great sleep-in before venturing out from our apartment on Rue Saint-Maurice about 8.30am, popping around the corner to a great little French café called Le Cartet on Rue McGill for brunch. We explored the beautiful cobbled streets of the old port area before heading into the city proper. The autumn colours are just beginning to show their bright orange and red hues in Montreal and we can only imagine the contrast in another couple of weeks. We walked up into the Latin Quarter before heading back along Rue Sainte-Catherine, a shopping street that is home to many boutique stores. For lunch we purchased a delicious smoothie - Fraise Banane Moyen from Al & Jo. Shortly after we were stopped on the street by a TV ... read more

Saturday 14thSeptember 2013 Partly cloudy, 27c Cruise Embarkation Day! Today we started on our 7 night cruise from Seattle to Vancouver. We had a sleep in, went for our daily walk to get a yummy juice and some supplies. We finished packing – oh so much stuff, checked out at midday and took a taxi down to Pier 66 where we joined the line to embark the lovely Norwegian Jewel. It was a reasonably fast embarkation and rooms ready shortly after - at about 1pm. Sail away was at 4pm. We sat up on the deck above the pool and enjoyed the festive atmosphere. Not being allowed irons in the cabin we had to collect our bag from the confiscation room where they will hold our iron until the end of the cruise. We had dinner ... read more

Date - Monday 9th September 2013 What a gorgeous day to leave Wellington, NZ. Knowing we had a long day ahead with three plane journeys and airport terminals we started the day with a lovely brisk walk around the area Jennie's parents live in. With the head clear and the bodies energised we completed our packing and left the wonderful family resort of "Davis Hotel"! The resident chauffeur kindly took us to the airport where we took our flight bound for Auckland at midday. Met by another friendly family chauffeur we had an enjoyable lunch at a yummy cafe near the airport. After completing a few admin tasks and catching up with family we headed back to the airport to complete check-in formalities for our LA leg of the journey. In Duty Free Jennie bought another ... read more

Date Thursday 18th November 2010 City New York, Phoenix, Honolulu Currency NZ$1.00 = US$0.76 Climate Low 10c – high 28c We boarded our US Airways flight from New York just before 10am for our 5 hour flight to Phoenix, Arizona. The bad news was there was no food supplied on the flight despite the length, nor were there any TV, movies or audio services at all. The good news was this gave us a chance to catch up on the New York blog and catch a few zzz’s. Our stop in Phoenix was brief, but long enough to grab a drink and do some emails. We also had to turn our clocks back 2 hours. Our next flight was also on US Airways and this time there was a TV, which showed a couple of TV ... read more