The End of our Journey

Today we started our long journey home, we hope. The COVID virus has caused us to cut our world tour short. We vowed to return to New Zealand to see the places we couldn’t get to this time, & to get to Hawaii in the future, as well. With the help of our travel company back home, we managed to book multiple flights home, the first ones on New Zealand Airlines. The New Zealand PM just announced that at midnight tonight their borders will be closed to tourists. We made our way back to Christchurch. If the flights aren’t canceled, we’ll fly to Auckland first, then to Houston, Texas, before flying back to Toronto. We plan on renting a car at Pearson to drive (on the correct side of the road) back home. We appreciate our daughter, Ashley’s, help in securing contractors to re-open our house, and fill our fridge & freezer with enough groceries to last for our upcoming 14 day self imposed isolation. Off to sleep now to rest up for what we hope will be an uneventful, very long, day tomorrow. We’ll post next, with a bit of luck, from home.Read more