A Big World from a Small Island

09/04/2021 My last trip,  before Covid-19 struck the Earth like a meteorite and changed everyone's life,  was to Auckland, New Zealand, in January 2020.  Auckland is the economic capital of New Zealand, and Wellington the actual capital. My mom and I were supposed to spend 6 days in Auckland but we decided to stay four more days since there were so many things to do. We walked along the Harbour admiring  the boats bearing names such as Lauren or Janice or Mary Anne.....The bridge that you can see on the far left of the picture is a Drawbridge with a traffic light. It could be crossed by car, on foot or bike. Near that bridge was an open reading space. You could borrow a book and read it on the spot on a bean bag. We found a lot of bean bags in Auckland and none of them were attached with a lock. If this was in any other city, they would've all been stolen. We went to the cinema almost everyday since we thought, why not?   The spotlight of our trip...

  07/04/2021 On our family's trip to the US, we decided to discover the Yosemite National Park, in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. My mom hired a car from San Fransisco so we could drive there. Unfortunately, my dad scraped the side when he was backing out of the parking lot.... And of course, mom had forgotten to pay for insurance😩. So dear readers, don't forget to pay for insurance when you travel. The drive to our inn took 9 hours whereas it should've taken 5. Why? We got lost, because we hadn’t entered the right address in the GPS. Dad stumbled across a Christian camp. The campers called our inn for us and helped us find it.  It was 9pm when we finally arrived at the inn , we were so hungry that the first thing we asked was if they had any food. Everything was already closed....except the vending machine. Those instant noodles were the best meal I had ever had. Any kid who hasn’t  eaten anything for more than 6 hours will agree with me. We spent the n...