It’s been a week since we arrived on NZ’s South Island and I love it! Previous week’s adventures written here: https://retirementadventureblog.com/2025/03/07/new-zealand-the-south-island-in-two-or-three-parts/ We’ve been blessed with outstanding weather and a wonderful group on tour. The food is good and abundant and laughs abound on the hikes and on the van. This day, Saturday, started cloudy with sprinkles. … Continue reading New Zealand: the South Island, Part 2
Tag: hiking
El Chalten and El Calafate
Let me be clear: I am not a hiker. I am a 64 year old roly poly woman of Polish heritage with short legs. I breathe heavily and walk slowly. Greg’s the hiker, I am a walker. I’ll walk 18 holes of golf. I’ll far outpace Greg on a flat sidewalk shopping in a city… Continue reading El Chalten and El Calafate
The ‘W’, a Patagonian Hiking Adventure
Day -1. We had a meet up with our guide, Baru, at the Chile Nativo travel office in Puerto Natales. A smallish man with rangy black hair and an impish smile, it seemed as if Baru was measuring us up as much as we did him. Distances and elevation didn’t seem so far on the… Continue reading The ‘W’, a Patagonian Hiking Adventure
A Geologist’s Dream
Bryce Canyon National Park was our next destination. We saw more majestic views upon leaving Zion including Checkerboard mountain. Then the landscape opened into vistas of pine trees and golden meadows and bison as if the Ponderosa ranch and Hoss and Little Joe magically appeared. We drove a further 2 hours to the Bryce Park… Continue reading A Geologist’s Dream
My new reality 