After arriving back from Alaska at the beginning of the month, the Temuka resident has now visited all 50 states of the United States.
While working at a school in Canada half a century ago, Ms Beaurgard managed to travel through 49 states, most of those covered in four months, when she travelled 50,000 miles (80,467km) on Greyhound buses.
She had visited all of the major tourist hotspots like the Grand Canyon, the presidents’ heads at Mt Rushmore, and Disneyland.
Yet, travelling alone in her late 20s, she said she did not find herself in any scary situations.
"No, not at all."
But she did meet "lots of lovely, lovely people".
As she was seated on the bus with plenty of people coming and going, there were many people to strike up conversations with.
Some of them would invite her home to stay the night.
Covering such a large land mass in a short period of time had required a strict shoestring budget.
She secured a deal for unlimited use of Greyhound buses, and each morning she would get a front seat, and then — through the night — she would move to the back of the bus where she could stretch out and sleep.
"Every four or five days I would get a motel."
In the late ’60s and early ’70s there were restrictions on money being sent out of the country, so — had she needed something — her parents could not send her anything.
While she had returned to South Canterbury to live, she had managed to go on many cruises over the years, visiting places like Singapore and Hong Kong.
However, Alaska had remained out of reach.
When she retired from an award-winning, 20-year career in real estate, she decided it was the perfect time to tick it off the list and she booked her tickets to travel to Alaska in 2020.
"They were all booked and paid for and then Covid struck."
Four years later she went to book again, however this time she was reluctant to go by herself.
So when a friend put her in touch with a woman from Nelson earlier this year, the two quickly forged a friendship and headed off on holiday, heading up through the United States to Canada on a conducted tour.
"We got on like a house on fire."
When she finally boarded the cruise ship Ruby Princess this year for an inside passage of Alaska she said it felt like a dream coming true "after so many years being on my bucket list".
After seven days on the cruise stopping at ports around Alaska, she was delivered back to Vancouver.
She then managed to catch up with all 11 former colleagues and friends she had set out to see.
She visited Regina, Saskatchewan and had driven out to where she had worked in a boarding school on the edge of a lake.
"In the winter the lake would be so hard you could drive on it."
She said they would take a post-hole digger and make a hole before fishing in the lake, with a mai mai over the hole.
"We would haul up all the fish."
There were a lot of changes, the school — where she had worked with Canada’s indigenous people — had been pulled down, with only the gym remaining.
As to what she was going to do next she said, "I’m happy now".
However, she is tempted to visit Dubai.
