New Zealand Mountain Range

November 30th 2006
You really CAN do it all in New Zealand...ocean, mountains, rivers, farmland... In just two weeks, we covered a significant portion of the south island (save the southwest corner). We hiked, fished, ate and drank like kings and queens, climbed a glacier, kayaked in a national park & just plain enjoyed ourselves! And YES - the sights were just as glorious and astounding as depicted in the Lord o ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island

The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more

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Scott Noble

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A Trip Around the World "Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has a personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only w... full info

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