Lynsey's Travel Adventures...version 2!

25 October through 31 October 2025 Kia Ora = hello! Or in the Maori culture, more specifically, it means "be well"  When I finally arrived in Auckland (YAY!), I was quite tired. I wouldn't blame it completely on jet lag, since I literally jumped ahead 23 hours (Friday basically vanished), but I didn't get as much sleep time on the plane as I had planned. I departed from Honolulu around 11pm on Thursday night, and as soon as we were in the air, Fiji Airways, bless their hearts, passed out drinks and food. I was already quite tired, but I couldn't turn down sustenance at this point, not knowing when I would get fed again. During the flight that lasted 5 hours and 40 minutes, I did manage to get a little sleep, but not nearly enough. When we landed in Samoa, I wasn't required to get off the plance, but others were disembarking and many more were boarding the plane, so it was not conducive to sleeping at that point either. Mind you, this was at 3:35 am on Saturday...

31 October 2025 Hello friends and family! Thanks for your patience as it's taken me this long to sit down to type up some of the notes from my journal about the first leg(s) of my travels. So here goes. Fair warning, it was a whirlwind the past couple of weeks. I journaled in much more detail, but I am choosing to type up the highlights as I wait in Whangarei for my bus to Waipu for the next leg of my trip. Reach out via email, WhatsApp or text if you feel so inclined! 🙂 For those of you wondering why in the world I started in Minneapolis (airport code MSP) and stopped in Dallas (DFW is the airport code)...My best friend, Veronica, and her family live near there, so it was a wonderful reason to book my flight out of the Minneapolis airport, so I could have my dad and sister drive me there to drop me off, hang out for a couple of days to visit, and then be on my way. As for the stop in Dallas, there was an event there, on October 11, that I was looking forward to attending. I am pa...