500 Saturdays: Nomad Diary

Tawa Caterpiller Common Tree in New Zealand in Full Bloom Close Up of Flower on Tree in Tawa and Throughout New Zealand Nice Garden in Tawa Downtown Saturday. 30. Today was cloudy and raining until about 2:30 in the afternoon. At this point in the day the sky cleared to blue and the sun became brilliant. I had washed our sheets and hung them out to dry. I didn’t think the weather would change and the there was a halt in the rain at midmorning when I hung the sheets out to dry. We walked to the grocery with our raincoats, got rained on while we were going to the bakery. Later the sun came out and the laundry dried. We took another evening walk and talked about going to Brazil and possibly Greenland in 2024 and begin to consider Ireland in 2025. Sunday. 31. We went to the 10am worship at Wellington Church of Christ. We recognized many of the people from last week, and there were some people who were back from being out last week. We enjoyed our time to...

What I LOVE about New Zealand! (after my first 2 months)  And Other Random NZ Stuff.  2023 December Darrell Cooking Breakfast at Our Takapuna Apartment, North Island, NZ I’ve come to New Zealand from the US with my husband Darrell. We arrived by a cruise ship from Vancouver, British Columbia at the end of October. This is a place that Darrell wanted to come after he retired. We have planned this trip within the bigger picture of our decision to sell everything except our truck and minimal personal items and live as Nomads. If you’d like to read my Nomad Diary beginning from the sale of our house in September 2020 it’s at www.500saturdays.blogspot.com We are in New Zealand for 4 months. We have just finished a 7 week road trip in the South Island and we are at a house sit in Wellington for the holidays. We will be in New Plymouth for January. February is still up in the air for where or what we will see in North Island. We leave Auckland on a cruise ship in March. 1. I am enj...