Adventures

Bellinis lined up at Harry's Bar in Venice

Asmuss was created because we love to travel but struggled to find stylish clothing that worked for all the places we visited and all our adventures along the way. Food plays a huge part in our tr...

Snow covered Mount Taranaki and the coast of Taranaki from an airplane with little fluffy white clouds

How to find your way through the maze of Carbon Offsetting

There has been a lot of discussion & debate about offsetting carbon emissions lately. Are they a good thing or are they just a means for people to offset and not make any meaningful changes to...

Pink flamingoes in a high altitude lake in Bolivia

Is it possible to travel sustainably?? Our tips to travel more sustainably

Is travelling sustainably really possible? Yes there is a climate emergency that the globe gotten itself well and truly into. Does this mean we shouldn’t travel anywhere, especially by air? Should...

Wave crashing on the beach at Martins Bay at the end of the Hollyford Track Fiordland

Care for your clothes – don’t over wash them

How you care for clothes seems to be a topic for discussion, especially with Stella McCartney saying “if you don’t absolutely have to clean anything, don’t clean it,” How you care for your cloth...

Grasses growing on wide expanses near the Lightning Field New Mexico

Where are we going? The Lightning Field

It is not often that you plan a holiday around a place that you know very little about, especially to the extent that you don’t really know where it is! We had seen a couple of authorised photos a...

Crossing a swing bridge on the Hollyford Track wearing Asmuss

Mountains to Ocean: The Hollyford Track

We like to get outdoors, and having Clare back in New Zealand for a family Christmas meant we have the opportunity to see a part of the country we hadn’t seen before. We even got our Mum on the hik...

Shadow of the Taliesin West Whirling Arrow symbol on rock wall

Quick Stop - Taliesin West

Our tight schedule in Sedona was because we really wanted to be able to visit Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and architecture school near Scottsdale. The only way to see around Taliesin W...

Hiking towards the Bell red rock formation in Sedona

Sedona at Speed - 20 hours in Sedona

The traffic jam we encountered as we drove into Sedona should have been an indication of how busy the town was. We were staying in Sedona on a Saturday night that coincided with what seemed to be a...

Shadows of the three sisters in the early morning in the Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon Grandeur

Driving from Las Vegas to Albuquerque is probably not the fastest way to get between the two places, or even to get from Las Vegas to the Lightning Fields (which was our main reason for this part ...

Seven Magic Mountains sculpture of massive rock towers in bright colours in the desert near Las Vegas

Art(iface) in Las Vegas

Artifice, not art, is what comes to mind when I first think of Las Vegas. Having said that Las Vegas was the starting point of our South West art trip. We stayed at the Cosmopolitan Hotel which fe...