• Everest Base Camp #1 & #2
• Inca Trail 2018
• Women's Projects in Tanzania 2018
• Bhutan 2017
• Women's House Building 2017
• Antarctic Adventure
• Greenland by Day Hike
• Fire and Ice: Iceland
• Family Fire & Ice: Iceland
• Mongolia on Horseback
• Raising Voices, Raising Roofs
• New Zealand Adventure
• Inca Trail 2015
• Ethiopia Explorer 2015
• Kilimanjaro Climb 2015
• Patagonia & Wine
• Everest Base Camp 2014
• Bhutan, Land of the Thunder Dragon 2014
• The Way: A Pilgrimage Across Spain
• Belize Dive & Jungle Exploration
• Kilimanjaro Climb 2014
• Everest Base Camp 2013
• Turkey: Mt. Ararat
• Inca Trail II 2013
• Inca Trail I 2013
• 2013 Kilimanjaro Cancer Climb
• Spanish Immersion with Mayan Tropics & Honduran Island Paradise
• Kilimanjaro Climb 2012
• Nicaragua Volunteer Adventure 2012
• In the Footsteps of Buddha 2011
• Iceland & Greenland 2011
• 2011 Kilimanjaro Climb for Cancer
• Everest Base Camp 2010
• Bhutan Sept. 26, 2010
• Galapagos 2010

Viewing Post for: New Zealand Adventure

Date: FEBRUARY 24, WEDNESDAY
Location: Hanmer Hot Springs, 2 hours nw of Christchurch

Wow! We are all here. SAFE and arrived early. We stopped downtown Christchurch to see the very interesting rebuilding of the city after the devastating earthquake of 2011. The buildings are new, vacant, temporary and some are fenced off and falling down. The city is still debating what way to take the rebuild.

Beautiful weather as we drove 2 hours across and into the mountains. We ended at Hanmer Hot Springs, a beautiful little resort town. Some hiked and some shopped. You guess who was who, before we spent several hours soaking in a variety of hot springs.

Dinner was cooked in our villa beneath a beautiful sunset over the mountains to our west.

All in the first amazing day.

From Karen and Bill, Happy Birthday from New Zealand to granddaughter Stella! 11 today!

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