Tanna, Vanuatu offers a land of natural wonder and hospitable people (published September 2013) Active volcanoes, dense forests, pristine bays, rugged mountains, cyclones, earthquakes, ash plains, […]
Sailing Back in Time
New Zealand’s Unknown Isle
Discovering rugged yet laid-back Stewart Island (published May 2013) photos by Jim Thomsen Most people believe New Zealand consists of just North and South Islands. But […]
A Feast for the Senses
A leisurely cruise in Fiordland, New Zealand (published January 2013) “You’re going where? Why? Just rent a campervan and drive there!” That was the response we […]
Palau
Discovering paradise, cheeseburgers and a little slice of America (published June 2015) I didn’t get the full meaning of Jimmy Buffet’s song Cheeseburger in Paradise until we […]
Jayapura Discovered
An unintended stop leads to new friends and a fixed boom in this interesting Indonesian city (published May 2015) We arrive in Jayapura by accident when […]
A Passage for the Birds
Tenaya shares the seas with flying friends while heading from PNG to Palau (published February 2015) Maybe the sky knows this is our last night in […]
PNG Discovered
A voyage through Papua New Guinea reveals the friendly side of these rarely cruised islands (published December 2014) Where to next? Jim and I had been […]
Sailing Canoes
Discovering the custom of building and sailing traditional canoes in Papua New Guinea (published July 2014) We see sails. Not the tall white sails typical of […]