Category Archives: Travels
Ringling Brothers Museum
I went back to Sarasota a few weekends ago and visited the Ringling Museum of Art. I’ve been wanting to go there since we moved to St. Pete and it was well worth the wait. If you ever get a … Continue reading
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Weekend in Sarasota
We revived our failed New Year’s plan this weekend and visited Sarasota, Florida. We stayed at the Indigo Hotel (walking distance to downtown) in this lovely room: The Southerner and I both agreed that the hotel was very nice, but … Continue reading
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Americas update
Aside from trying to refrain from starting all of my sentences with the words This one time in New Zealand!, the Southerner and I have spent the last three weeks traveling across the South and making logistical decisions about our impending … Continue reading
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We’re back!
We got back home Sunday night after traveling for 33 hours. 33 loooong hours. I watched every movie available and took advantage of the free drinks on our international flight. The highlight of the trip was when a little girl on our last flight of … Continue reading
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Last visit to the Wairarapa
Last weekend we paid a final visit to our favorite place in New Zealand: the Wairarapa. To mix things up a little, we stayed in Martinborough at the Peppers Martinborough Hotel. We usually stay in Greytown at the Greytown Hotel which … Continue reading
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The Horror
I am not a big fan of musicals. I used to love them when I was a kid, but somewhere along the way the thought of someone spontaneously bursting into song began to make my skin crawl. So, when the … Continue reading
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The post where I alienate 90% of my reader-base (9 readers out of a base of 10) by talking about fishing
The main reason we moved to New Zealand for 6 months was to fly-fish. You wouldn’t know it from the majority of my posts about New Zealand, but we’ve been doing a serious amount of fishing since we arrived. While … Continue reading
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New Zealand, my heart hearts you
Movie theaters here don’t serve butter with their popcorn. I don’t know why I’m sharing this with you, other than that it really shocked me when I realized it. The first and last time I tried asking for it, the checkout … Continue reading
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OnTrays, Petone
Even though we tried lots of delicious food this weekend, our greatest food-find was not at the food show but at a little international market called OnTrays in Petone. About a month ago, I had the best cheese I’ve ever tasted … Continue reading
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The Wellington Food Show
The Food Show was awesome. For $25 we drank and ate to our heart’s content. My solo experience on Friday was a little better than my second time around Saturday afternoon with the Southerner. If I went back, I would … Continue reading
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