ON THE ROAD AGAIN, THIS TIME TO BRISBANE, MAY 1991
In Sydney, we hired a car to use during our vacation there. On our third day we all piled into the car and, loaded with goodies headed north along the coast of eastern Australia with a final destination of Brisbane,…
AUSTRALIA IN THE SYDNEY HARBOUR 1991
After a rousing day of sightseeing in downtown Sydney, we start day two off on another tourist adventure. The girls were excited, not, and showing signs of passive resistance on only their second day. Looks like this was going to…
SYDNEY AND THE GIRLS CAN’T WAIT FOR ANOTHER TOUR
We have arrived in Sydney, Australia in early May 1991 after just having left New Zealand. We are taking an extended break before touching down in Calgary and searching out a new job. “An extended break” you might ask, “isn’t…
OFF TO AUSTRALIA WITH AN ANGEL
We have left New Zealand, without work, in no hurry to get home. It was decided that Australia would be our first stop, in what we planned as an extended vacation. I will make a couple of posts about Australia,…
TIME TO SAY “ADIOS” NEW ZEALAND AND WE ARE OFF – 1991
Well our time has come and we are off to another adventure. The second phase of our project had not materialized, so after 8 months we were again heading into the unknown (Deysi and the girls about 6 months) .…
DAY TRIPS AROUND NEW ZEALAND – OR CAPTIVE OF OUR DAD IN HIS CAR.
As we had done, on all of our previous travels, we spent almost all of our free time snooping around the places we lived in. Deysi was a keen explorer and the girls were resigned to the fact that each…
AREQUIPA, PERU, 1920
This maneuver was carried again by out by Francisco Pérez Chávez (photo not included)A highly experienced pilot with more than 22,000 flight hours who was a Pilot Officer in the Canadian Air Force during the Second World War and later…
CANADIANS? WHY WERE WE AND HOW DID WE ARRIVE?
I am going to step away from New Zealand for a moment and Post an article about our family history. It has been a long time since I had an opinion piece, and I have now, decided on this one.…
ROUGHING IT ON THE COROMANDEL PENINSULA – 1991
Our next adventure starts on a long weekend near the time of Easter 1991. Deysi had decided that we would tour the Coromandel Peninsula and see all the sights we had heard so much about. This peninsula is on the…
RAMBLING AROUND NEW ZEALAND – SNAPSHOTS OF MY MIND
During our travels around New Zealand we had many great experiences and wonderful times. Some of these I am going to try and describe in this Post. None of them warrant a full Post, on their own, but they have…
