This amazing sunrise is from just outside Christchurch, on my first morning in New Zealand.

My posts on the South Island portion of my New Zealand trip are now done. I have one more summary post coming tomorrow, but I also have a video of still I made set to Coldplay’s ‘Paradise’ and the link to the South Island podcast I did for the Amateur Traveler podcast.   NEXT: New Zealand’s […]

Janeen shot this video of Winter the Dolphin from the movie “Dolphin Tale” on her iphone this past weekend during our visit to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. I’ll have a more detailed post on this at a later date.

From 1999 until 2001, I had the good fortune to work at an awesome travel bookstore called The Savvy Traveller in downtown Chicago. It was such an amazing place that I ended up spending much of my salary on things I found at the store. One of the best items I purchased while working there […]