Author Archives: Kate Waltman

Friday, February 27, 2020: After burning some energy on our morning hike (see previous post), we were off to the airport to sit for approximately the next 12 hours. Our flight to Auckland was scheduled for 1:30PM with an estimated flight time of 10 hours. We arrived a few hours early, cleared TSA relatively quickly,Continue reading “Honolulu –> Auckland”

Friday, February 27, 2020: Our 23 hour layover in Honolulu gave us just enough time for a short hike in the morning before our flight to Auckland. We woke up at 5:30AM to catch a 6:15AM bus to Diamond Head on the eastern side of the island. Diamond Head is an inactive volcano that hasContinue reading “Hiking Diamond Head”

Wednesday, February 26, 2020: Today began our looooong travel from New York to New Zealand. For the first leg of our trip, we caught a flight out of NY from JFK at 10:00AM and flew to Honolulu. The flight was scheduled to be 10.5 hours, which would put us in Hawaii at 4:30PM HST, butContinue reading “NY –> Honolulu”