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Golf/hahaupōro (Pebble Beach)

Thursday/Rāpare 13th June Today was all about the golf/hahaupōro. Bill worked out, and thought we had walked 36 holes. I was happy with that figure and I have very sore feet. Pebble Beach is very scenic from every hole, it was 14 degrees Celsius, you had to keep moving to keep warm and I loved watching experts play golf. Ko au te hahaupōro. Ko te hahaupōro ko au. (I am the golf and the golf is me.)...

Exploring Carmel-By-The-Sea

Wednesday/Raapa 12th June We did some exploring of Carmel-by-the-Sea - a quaint town which is similar to Princeton, with coffee shops and boutique type shops. The difference is Princeton has the university, Carmel-by-the-Sea has Pebble Beach Golf Course.  It is a square mile village. There is a no high heels law, and there are no street addresses.  Thirty years ago when Clint Eastwood was Mayor of Carmel he  did not want to citify Carmel and rejected house- to-house mail delivery ...

Aptos Beach

Tuesday/Rārua 11th June...

Leaving New Zealand

Tuesday/Rārua We left our home in Auckland at 3.30 pm (via Anna our daughter in her boyfriend - Mark's car) saying goodbye to 23 Cedar Rd for the last time after 25 years living there.  We were on a 7.45 pm Air NZ flight heading for San Francisco and Bill whispered in my ear “I have got emailed that Air NZ took our lowest possible offer for a One-Up upgrade that I pitched for a week ago, and we are going business class.” That was music to my ears! Getting out of Cedar Rd has been ...

Welcome to our journey

Naumai, welcome to my travel blog/ whakairanga rangitaki 2019/2020. (That is interesting there is a word in Māori for blog, when they did not even write 200 years ago!) As some of you know I am interested in Māori ways, partly because they lived off the land with no pollution, they were the first humans who lived in Aotearoa, and I am learning their ways as well as their language. In this blog you will learn some Māori words and ways as I learn and can, if you ch...