While visiting Rotorua (both as part of shooting the tv show Alive – see trailer – as well as subsequent visits when staying with friends), I had the opportunity to visit two Maori villages and cultural shows. One was Tamaki Maori Village, and the other was Mitai Maori Village. Both were very educational, and the [...]
Kirsty left Canada in 2001 and has been traveling, working, and volunteering abroad ever since. Of the past two years, she has spent 11 months doing disaster relief work in Bangladesh, Haiti, and Indonesia. Please enjoy a week-in-the-life of Kirsty as she returns to Haiti to volunteer her time with Hands on Disaster Relief (HODR) [...]
Hot off the press, here’s the official trailer for the New Zealand episode of Alive, which we spent a week shooting in early March. As I get more news, I’ll be sure to pass it along. In the meantime, please enjoy the trailer! (Click here to view if you can’t see it in your browser).
After a week of shooting the tv show Alive in Rotorua, we bade Heather of Destination Rotorua goodbye, but she still had a trick up her sleeve. She sent us to Waitomo for an “adventure” of unknown – and epic – proportions. Waitomo is north of Rotorua and is known as one of the largest [...]
As I settle into Mana Retreat in New Zealand, I’m hoping to both catch up and get ahead on some writing projects, and even spearhead a few new ones. But juggling work-trade and work-online can be tiresome, and I must make sure I take some time out to soak in the incredible scenery. Below are [...]
As I mentioned in my week-in-the-life of shooting a tv show post, one of the adventures we got to experience was a half day at Agroventures. It’s best described as an adult playground, with a collection of fun activities that will get the adrenalin pumping. Please check out this video of my Adventures at Agroventures [...]
Having created the popular week-in-the-life series last year, I’ve not yet written about a week in my own full-time traveling life. The week profiled here is far from my average week, but was enough of a full-on adventure that I thought you might enjoy it. As a quick introduction, I was corresponding with Adventure Aaron [...]
We really had no idea what lay in store for us when we were driven to Kaitiaki Adventures for the day. Our small television crew of three were cordially received by a confusing myriad of people who fitted us (which basically meant looking us up and down then sifting through their racks) for wetsuits, booties, [...]
White Island’s eerily green steamy stinky lake. This post hails to you as I’m enroute to Coromandel (on the North Island of New Zealand), where I’ll be for the month of April. I still have a veritable backlog of adventures to share with you from Rotorua though, so stay tuned each Monday & Thursday for [...]
50kms off the coast of New Zealand in the Bay of Plenty exists a living, breathing, steaming, venting, bubbling, heaving entity called White Island: New Zealand’s most active volcanic site. To walk on its shores gives you a true feeling for the earth’s power, and a humbling sense of mortality to go with it. I [...]
