Outvoted! Looks like you're outvoted Dancing One on the driving assessment - Denise was having a great time ;-) Those few days will always be special - I smile just thinking of the fun we had, and so glad I was able to get you out to our West Coast - but plenty more gems over here, and you're only three hours away. Hope to see you both at Christmas!
Outvoted! What's this about a driving assessment? What happens on the field stays on the field I say. Hope you also got some great pics with your beefy SLR of our time together. Looking forward to our next time together. In the interim...Relax & Enjoy.
In my mind's eye This is how I imagine NZ will be, thanks for the photographic proofs of what I have in my mind's eye. Will visit some day and would like to stay in one of those houses. Keep travelling!
In my mind's eye Nice to hear from you Frank. These pics from the North Island and the previous blog on Maori culture. The North Island is the one with boiling mud and the South Island is the one with glaciers and fjords. The Lord of the Rings was filmed on both the North and South Islands and both are quite different and stunning in many ways.
I love everything volcanic I love everything that is volcanic. Geysers, hot springs, lava tubes, fumaroles and so on. New Zealand would be awesome to visit some day and another must-see place is Yellowstone. I have visited some pretty cool places. I have a feeling I might have mentioned this to you before though. But I tell you anyway. Boiling Lake in Dominika, Strokkur Geyser and Stori Geyser in Iceland and Mud Volcanos in Gobustan Azerbaijan are a few highlights from my travels. /Ake
I love everything volcanic So do we Ake. Probably climbing Anak Krakatoa is my favourite as it was a mixture of danger and madness but the calm and volatility of volcanic places gets us every time.
The Dangerous ones with nothing but trouble What a great combination for fun. We hope to meet Jo soon. Two photo experts together....you can't go wrong.
The Dangerous ones with nothing but trouble You'd love Jo, MJ. As you guys are the Dangerous Ones, whether Jo meeting you guys would equate to "nothing but trouble" sounds like an excellent reason to make it happen!
Jo trouble! Dave, good to know about Jo....I knew she is trouble, but didn't know she is always trouble:) 😁
I have to reserve casting my vote for the kiwi the 2nd most beautiful country in the world....to me, it's my country Canada!
Jo Trouble! My mantra for voting NZ as the second most beautiful place in the World is based on standing on one spot and turning...a mountain in front, a lake to the left, a fjord to the right, a primordial forest, glacier or shot of steam behind. My first love is the open spaces of Oz...but NZ has beauty within easy reach at every turn. QED.
Interesting read Thanks for telling us this story. I envy you that you have visited Timbuktu. It's not safe there right now so it will be a couple of years before I am able go there. Looking forward to the rest of your story. /Ake
Interesting read Everyone has an interesting story I find Ake...sometimes it just needs a bit of an excuse to tell it. Hope I get time to tell the rest of this NZ trip as we are off to far far away lands in two weeks...where chiefness ain't gonna be much use!!!
One For The Books Holy smokes Dave - I just settled down to read a Pulitzer prize novel on my deck today with drink in hand when I logged onto your blog. Safe to say the book was put down. I read with absolute delight your journey to Dancing Dave with some amazing music stories (holy crap Eric Clapton/Cream!), Māoris, & vitamins thrown in along the way ;) (We had a lad in our small Irish/French town who loved to dance by himself and he was called 'Fluff Mulligan'. (I digress - just love where nicknames come from). You're like an onion Dave with many layers (er stories) and glad to read every one of them! What a hoot! Pulitzers or Netflix has nothing on you oh chief!!
One For The Books What a peach of a comment Sal. I'm chuckling. Thank you. Life for us sometimes is like following the Pied Piper...following tunes to who knows where. Gotta say its fun...even better when it leads to serendipitous delights. Life should never be ordinary I say...step out and it never will be so.
My wife Denise & I like to travel "on paths less travelled" that capture our imagination, inspire my photography & where we mix with locals & remain safe.
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Outvoted!
Looks like you're outvoted Dancing One on the driving assessment - Denise was having a great time ;-) Those few days will always be special - I smile just thinking of the fun we had, and so glad I was able to get you out to our West Coast - but plenty more gems over here, and you're only three hours away. Hope to see you both at Christmas!