New Zealand Aotearoa Bound

 A quick photo essay of our travel to New Zealand and our first day in quarantine. 

Saying goodbye to our house 

Saying goodbye to the spot in our house where I found late husband dead.

My last night with Sage

Saying goodbye to our pet chickens

Saying goodbye to Sage at the Sea-Tac parking lot
shortly after this we said goodbye to my oldest child as well, but I don't
have a picture from that.  

On our Alaska Airlines plane on the tarmac at Seattle, bound for Los Angeles

Nearly empty flight to L.A. 

Last glimpse of the Pacific Northwest somewhere South of Seattle

Landing in Los Angeles

Nearly empty International Terminal at LAX (Los Angeles)

Nearly empty International Terminal at LAX (Los Angeles)

Our ride to New Zealand

Nearly empty International Terminal at LAX (Los Angeles)

On Air New Zealand all the middle seats are empty

In flight entertainment

Seat back screen shows we are about to land in New Zealand Aotearoa

Sunrise shortly before landing

First glimpse of Aotearoa

Passengers all from just our plane transit through the Auckland Airport international terminal 

Welcome to Aotearoa

Passengers on just our flight in a single file socially distanced line
waiting to enter passport control 

Setting foot on the ground for the first time at the exit to
the Auckland Airport where we were loaded directly onto a shuttle

We are the only people on this shuttle headed for our Managed Isolation Hotel

Passing by the Novotel Auckland Hotel also a Managed Isolation while
on our way to isolation at the Holiday Inn.  
Fences are up all around to keep people contained. 

 Our Hotel room at the Holiday Inn.  We will spend the next 14 days
quarantined here. We are not allowed to leave our room at all until
we get the results of our day zero covid test. 

Breakfast or lunch the first day, I can't remember and it does not
matter since my body clock was completely out of sync with my
surroundings by this point.  It is food and it tastes good.  We eat on our
 little patio but we have no patio furniture so I use the heat pump as a table.