New Zealand: Mount Cook and Lake Tekapo

January 25, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

After a few days of city hopping, Sean and I were ready to commune with nature. We spent the morning and early afternoon of our fourth day on the South Island in Oamaru before driving approximately 200 kilometers (125 miles) to the Mount Cook Village. Mount Cook, also known as Aoraki, is the tallest peak in […]

New Zealand: Queenstown, Dunedin, and Oamaru

January 17, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

You may be wondering why I’m lumping three cities together in one blog post. A few reasons, really. One, if I blogged about every city individually I would have to change the name of this blog to KMCNewZealand: a place where we only talk about one trip forever and ever. And two, if I blogged […]

New Zealand: Milford Sound

January 11, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

The first stop on our whirlwind trip to New Zealand was Milford Sound. It actually was supposed to be the very last thing we did, but circumstances – that I’ll get to in a different post – caused us to flip our entire itinerary around and start in the south. After a quick flight to […]

What’s Wrong with New Zealand

January 8, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

We’ve been back in Dushanbe for just under a week after three weeks away and two and a half weeks in New Zealand. Yesterday I started the massive task of editing nearly 2,000 photos from my DSLR. Why so many you ask? I’ll get to that in a minute. Before I inundate this blog with […]