En route

We can have sausage and baked beans for breakfast or continental. My ankles are swollen - not managing the cramped quarters so well. Oh for a sky couch! But remember these seats were free to me so am being grateful instead.

It has been a turbulent flight and not much sleep but we are awake for breakfast now and it seems to have smoothed out for a bit.

We are crossing over Mexico around now.  

 

And have travelled about  11 hours with just under 2 to go.

Here we go!

 

Out of Taupo and over the lake.

At Auckland Airport

Whittaker Chocolate Teasers

I am taking these chocolate tasties to Tom and Janet, since they enjoyed them last time I went to the USA.

Maybe chocolate can be the topic of conversation while I am in the US instead of the upcoming election, just to keep my blood pressure down. I can't believe that there are people in the USA who will vote for the one who shall remain nameless on this holiday.

We are off for a week to Houston and New Orleans

I won return tickets for two to Houston, late last year, courtesy of Air New Zealand.  Thank you, everyone at Air New Zealand, for this unexpected treat!  Looking forward to flying out of Taupo next Saturday, with my husband.  I will be leaving my family and pets behind to look after themselves!
I am preparing the map of where we are going to go over the week that we are away and will try to keep it updated and the blog loaded with some images and hopefully videos of where we are going.
So we fly into Houston on Saturday, around lunchtime and are going to meet up with Janet and Tom (Dan's brother), who are our travel buddies from Wisconsin.
Here is the map as it stands at the moment.