Auckland, New Zealand Dumping camping gear and packing up for the big flight to San Francisco.

Opoutere, New Zealand Thermally active ocean beach – dig your own hot tub 🙂

Rotorua, New Zealand More geothermal craziness – oh and home of Zorbing.

Lake Taupo, New Zealand Arguably the best day walk in NZ – steamy, smelly, geological weirdness.

Napier, New Zealand The Art Deco city most famous for it’s wine.

Martinborough, New Zealand Classic cars, good food, wine and exceptional company in rural heaven.

Wellington, New Zealand Cloudy, but none of the torrential rains they’re getting further up north.

Motueka, New Zealand 2 days of kayaking bliss.

Renwick, New Zealand Hmmm, Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc excellence…

Kaikoura, New Zealand Staying at the Dusky Lodge. p.s. We came to swim with the Dolphins (Hector Dolphins). A highlight of the trip. We had to reserve our spot months in advance!!! No videos of us in the water, but you can see them before we jumped in (in the videos above)

Franz Joseph, New Zealand Where better to spend our time when the entire country is covered in rain clouds, but in a rain forest whilst admiring glaciers?

Greymouth, New Zealand Time to float through a cave on a tube… p.s. Day trip to Greymouth Glowworms and Glowworm Caves.  No pictures of the glowworms.

Hanmer Springs, New Zealand Time for some thermal spring soaking goodness… …But not until after the Sheep come home.

Dunedin, New Zealand South East Coast fun with Albatrosses

Queenstown, New Zealand Renting a friend’s cabin (w/o phone), at the north end of town, for 2 weeks.

Auckland, New Zealand Fine Sauvignon Blanc and counting many sheep… P.s. This was the last leg of our 12 month trip.  Typically, we would take time each month to post photos and stories about our previous month’s adventures.  But since there was no “month 13”, I guess that never happened.  By the time we returned