Just in case you need some more "awww" to start your morning: Two lionesses. Eight cubs. Cuteness overload. Still amazed at how close you could get and the lions just were not concerned. I guess that is what happens whe you are "k…
This is Kay. Kay drove my bus yesterday to the Wai-O-Tapu geothermal area and when she informed us that we did not have time to go swimming because of timing and I didn't see the entire park, she offered to come ... on her day off ... in her…
Me. Sewing my ripped backpack with dental floss. MacGuyver would be proud. — on the bus from Wellington to Taupo, New Zealand.…
Remembering Kenya: "On the job." Taking a selfie with the kiddos at a Maasai village outside the Selenkay Conservancy, Kenya. I was taking videos and we were going nuts looking at images in the back of the Nikon. I look forward to sharin…
Good places I have eaten ... lamb and kumara pie. Everyone else is in restaurants eating $30 meals. I'm not going to lie, if I was rolling in it, I might join them, but my view from the stone wall at the pier with my $6 pastry pie is best in Q…
"I thought about leaving Christchurch but I was born here." Mason Joseph Hurrell is sitting beside me on the "dance floor" — taking a break. He and his friends have come to dance in this vacant lot, where once a building stood…
Tomorrow, I will start seeing THIS! The giant potato cods of Cod Hole in the northern Great Barrier Reef can reach 8 feet long and a whopping 240 pounds, and you can stand there as they brush right by you! It's one of the most well-known divi…
I hardly ever remember to review stuff on Trip Advisor [http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/members/ayapua#CITY_TILES]. I did tonight .. and was pretty excited when I saw my map of review contributions ... Look at all those pins!!! Then I saw I have only…
A die cast sculpture of a townsperson of Menzies, western Australia, looks out over Lake Ballard. 150 of these sculptures, of all types of Menzies residents, dot the dried-up lake. To me, in my state of mind, they all seemed to be looking forward,…
