Price: Cheap Key Factor: Inexpensive, delicious food Better Burger is a chain restaurant with three different locations within a fifteen-minute walk of the Scene Apartments. This restaurant is the place to eat when you are low on money, but too classy to eat at McDonalds. While there are a lot of other cheap burger places...Read More

Time: 4-8 Hours What to bring: 20-30$ (Ferry), Water, Food, Sunscreen, Walking shoes Rangitoto is a small island located directly across from the Auckland Harbor. This island is an active volcano and erupted only about four hundred years ago. This has caused the formation of the volcanic rocks that line the pathways on the sea...Read More

Price: Average Key Factor: Local Beer QF Tavern (QFTAV) is a typical sports bar located directly on Queen Street. The bar has plenty of TV's and any game can be put on by request. The staff is friendly and is willing to change the station if asked. If there is a crucial game or big...Read More

An adventure that five of the guys in our group took was to an Airbnb chalet near Piha Beach on the western coastline. Dave helped us find a few different options and we chose a place that overlooked the beach and was only about $100 NZ…Read More

St. Paul’s church is located near the University of Auckland on Symonds St. The original structure of the church was laid in stone by Governor William Hobson in 1841. It is the oldest church within the city of Auckland and still operates today. In the 1860s d…Read More

Menu: http://alsdeli.co.nz/menu/ Today I went on a search to find a good spot for lunch under 16 NZD. I headed down to queen street from my apartment. On my way there, I passed by several places that looked good and had good deals as well, such as P…Read More

In 1988, wearing a High School letterman jacket one size too large and braces minus the wire that I habitually removed, I entered Lewis and Clark College. Carl Sagan's Cosmos yet ruled the universe and Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth was the preferred stocking stuffer for many a Lewis and Clark freshman. Two of...Read More

Crossing boundaries in their disparate forms is the single greatest purveyor of wisdom in travel abroad. With each boundary crossed comes a deeper awareness of place. And, sense of place is what separates the traveler from the tourist. In 2003 I led twelve U.C. Santa Barbara students on a six-week field course to Fiji. As...Read More

My last border crossing into a communist country was ten years ago: a horseshoe up through Norway and down into the iron belly of the Russian rust belt. Entering Vietnam airspace, I felt the same angst/excitement that I knew on that midnight crossing into the Red World. Our approach mirrored the same flight path used...Read More

I have never been the type of person to spend my free time at my place I work. This changed my first week at the Wellington Botanical Gardens. On my first full day in New Zealand, I decided to visit the gardens that I would be intern at for the next three months. I found...Read More