The Road Goes Ever On

...recounts the retirement travels of Mark and Vicki Sherouse since 2008...in Asia and the Pacific, New Zealand, Europe, South America, and Africa, as well as the US and Canada. Our website, with much practical information, is: https://sites.google.com/site/theroadgoeseveron/.Contact us at mark.sherouse@gmail.com or vsherouse@gmail.com.

Friday, February 13, 2009

It's a Pine; No, It's a Fir; No, It's a Spruce; No, Wait,

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It's a National Park Service-Approved Cell Tower! Another reason it's good to be back. Much as I have been impressed by New Zealan...
Thursday, February 12, 2009

Bear Left; Right, Frog*

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Our new car is a Chevy Cobalt, newer and sportier than the Millennium Bongo, more fun to drive, but it has no bed. And let me take this oppo...

Repatriation

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Take-Off View of Diamond Head Medium Island Lekeleke Burial Grounds, Keauhou Kona Coast View Welcome to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park; But ...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

AKL-NRT-HNL

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Auckland-Tokyo/Narita-Honolulu. Actually it's not as bad as it sounds. Or perhaps we have learned how to do this sort of thing: plenty o...
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Sunday, February 8, 2009

Adieu, New Zealand

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We're back in Auckland now, packing furiously for our 9:15 flight tomorrow morning to Tokyo, then after a brief lay-over at Narita, to H...

Speight's Brewery

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Most important of the Dunedin sites we visted was Speight's Brewery. Even before deciding to go there, we noticed people queuing up just...

Done Edin

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Yes, But Can You Buy a Bottle of Highland Park in This Town? Or a Tin of Rattray's Smoking Mixture? The Old RR Station; Flemish As Well ...

To Dunedin, Otago

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The drive to Dunedin veered back inland most of the way, although it was not without interest, including the largest shoe-fence (or shoe-any...

Seascapes

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After the penguin encounter we drove around Molyneux Bay and up, on foot, mostly, to the 1870 lighthouse and its incredible views of the coa...

Penguins!

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Penguins! This One Just Emerged from the Sea Drying-Off; Acclimatizing: We Can Relate... Later, as dusk approached, we drove out to Nugget P...

The Catlins: Slope Point

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Surf City; Click to Enlarge and See Surfers Jurassic Log Slope Point: As Far South As We Are Going Slope Point, Stage Right Stage Left From ...
Saturday, February 7, 2009

Henry the Tuatara

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Southland Museum, Largest Pyramid in the Southern Hemisphere, the Book Said (built by Cheops III?) Henry; He Moved Twice While We Were Wat...
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Friday, February 6, 2009

Bluff

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Both Bluff and Invercargill are treated poorly in the "Footprints" guidebook we are using. We found both to be of interest, althou...

To Invercargill

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Beach at Blue Cliffs We packed up and left Te Anau Wednesday. It has beeen our base of operations for all three major tramps on the lower...

Kepler Tramp: High Road/Low Road

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We divided forces for the Kepler Tramp. Vicki's knees needed a lighter work-out and definitely not the 3,000 foot ascent to the Kepler...
Monday, February 2, 2009

Remedial Routeburn

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Mirror Lakes; Click to Englarge and Read the Clever DOC Sign in the Center Christina Peak, from Key Summit Another Peak in the Vicinity Aote...

Routeburn Tramp; Or, There and Back Again Via Bus

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The Routeburn Track, another of New Zealand's “Great Walks,” encompasses parts of two national parks, Fiordlands and Mt. Aspiring, and, ...
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