Adventures

Where are we going? The Lightning Field

It is not often that you plan a holiday around a place that you know very little about, especially to the extent that you don’t really know where it is! We had seen a couple of authorised photos a...

Mountains to Ocean: The Hollyford Track

We like to get outdoors, and having Clare back in New Zealand for a family Christmas meant we have the opportunity to see a part of the country we hadn’t seen before. We even got our Mum on the hik...

Quick Stop - Taliesin West

Our tight schedule in Sedona was because we really wanted to be able to visit Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and architecture school near Scottsdale. The only way to see around Taliesin W...

Sedona at Speed - 20 hours in Sedona

The traffic jam we encountered as we drove into Sedona should have been an indication of how busy the town was. We were staying in Sedona on a Saturday night that coincided with what seemed to be a...

Grand Canyon Grandeur

Driving from Las Vegas to Albuquerque is probably not the fastest way to get between the two places, or even to get from Las Vegas to the Lightning Fields (which was our main reason for this part ...

Art(iface) in Las Vegas

Artifice, not art, is what comes to mind when I first think of Las Vegas. Having said that Las Vegas was the starting point of our South West art trip. We stayed at the Cosmopolitan Hotel which fe...

Art in the South West of the US

Art wasn’t what first sprung to my mind when thinking about the South West of the United States. Fortunately, our mum was much more aware of the many and varied art focused locations in the area a...

Packing it all in: What to wear when you go to Fogo Island

I always feel like the worst part of travelling or heading off on an adventure is the dreaded question of ‘what do I pack?!?’ Well, I guess we are trying to help out with that question by designin...

Fishermen's Huts & Artists Studios: Fogo Island

When I would tell people I was off to Fogo Island with my Mum no one had heard of it or at least very few people had. I hadn’t either when Mum had first suggested it. It’s a small island off the c...

Packing it all in (and not just carry-on)

We are the type of people that like to experience as much as possible when we travel and for some reason, we always seem to have multiple temperature zones to deal with.  This means a wide range o...