A good time to visit a host Nation of the Olympics is the year before or the year after the event. We decided to incorporate New Zealand in our trip to “Down Under”—Australia—in 2005. The 2004 Sydney Olympics was a great success and we had to make a trip to see these wonderful countries. We flew 13 hours from Los…
“Magic where mountains meet Sea,” is what the flyer said advertising the small New Zealand coastal town of Kaikoura. This small town is located about fifty-five miles north of the South Island’s capital of Christchurch. You may recall that Christchurch was hit by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake back in 2011 creating billions of dollars of damage. We had visited this…