Patagonia Chocolates
Outside Patagonia Chocolates, Queenstown - home to great, innovative ice cream. We stumbled on Patagonia Chocolates as we were exploring the harbor in Queenstown. It was a beautiful warm, sunny day and the sign said “ice cream” – so who were we to argue? …
One of the private hot pools at Glacier Hot Pools in Franz Josef.People flock to the little town of Franz Josef because of its proximity to the glacier by the same name. So, like everyone else, we’d spent our morning and the early afternoon hiking out to the face of the glacier
Recently there have been a spate of conversations on Twitter about the new US State Department warnings against travel to Europe and whether people still feel comfortable going there. In general we’ve always been asked, “Oh, isn’t that dangerous?” when we tell people where we’re
Other than their safety, the other big fear that people commonly share with us is the difficulty in communicating. Ok, they’re convinced it’s safe – but how will we tell people what we want? Our answer is that you’d be amazed how easy it is! Charades, much like Coke
Fruta offers lots of flavors of their delicious ice cream - from the traditional to the more adventurous. Tonight was an unusually warm night here in Santa Rosa. Sonoma County evenings are typically quite cool. Even hot summer days give ways to chilly temperatures at night
UPDATE #2 (05/05/2011): Trying out the Phil & Teds Traveler (Travel Cot) at homeWe are now the happy owners of two Phil & Ted’s travel cots. We recently traveled to to Canada with our just turned two-year-old toddler and our four-month-old baby and both of them slept gr
The Vista Uppababy Stroller at the Grand Canyon, with the car seat adapter.
Updated again – final update! Our kids have mostly grown out of the Vista now, but it remains one of the best baby purchases we made.…
Passed out in our trusty G-Lite with a Booginhead SippiGrip keeping "Bear" safely attachedRecently we flew from San Francisco to Toronto. We followed up that five hour flight with a RIDICULOUSLY long 7 1/2 hour drive to Montreal. Then we made whirlwind visit to f
The magic ATM that finally gave us money in Tahiti In all of our travels, we have never once used traveler checks. No matter where we go in the world, we’ve always been able to find an ATM.…
The line-up is worth it at Naturally Fjordland Pizzeria in Te Anau. The pizza is as delicious as it is innovative! There is an additional seating area through the doorway you see on the right of the photo.…