Well again its all over. We have finished in time for the start of the school year. We achieved our original goal of going top to bottom of NZ, allbeit a little later than originally planned. After arriving back to Havelock North we were rung by someone interested in buying the van, quite ironic as [...]

We changed our mind and did decide to come to Raglan today, glad we did. Cool little place, arty farty and pretty laid back. The only surfing we’ll do here though will be on the net as we are rubbish at the real thing, apart from Ferg who thinks he is the man!   Speaking [...]

We changed our mind and did decide to come to Raglan today, glad we did. Cool little place, arty farty and pretty laid back. The only surfing we’ll do here though will be on the net as we are rubbish at the real thing, apart from Ferg who thinks he is the man!   Speaking [...]

We are on the home straight and feeling that after 20 days in the van, we have found our rhythm.  With both Fergus and Meg sleeping for most of the drive between places, late afternoons are often our most active time of the day. Last night we stayed with Riley and Bec at Murrays Bay [...]

We finally made it to the tippy toppy part of the North. It was one of our goals to take the fan from top to bottom. Now we have taken 4wheelsandbaby from Bluff to the Cape. Fergie commemorated the occassion by planting a Pohutakawa. Now it is a slow drift back down south. Long last [...]

We hit a 1000 kms today for the North Island leg.Yippee for us!

Today we are at one of the most beautiful beaches ever, Maitai Bay, stunning. The water is so clear I could see fish changing their minds, its shallow, there is a hint of waves for the older beach-goer and of course, golden sand.   However when we arrived we found a perfect campsite, settled in [...]

We made the late change to go to Hamilton instead. We are trying hard to get North when the Golden Weather hits, and ‘The Tron’ was a little closer. The campsite was very average but it was our first real test with two babies in the van. It worked , Fergie and me up top, [...]

Did you see the tie in with the title? Clever! Yes the weather has been terrible but it did give Fergie and Meg their first taste of climbing.We are still holed up but are making the our first tentative steps north, (only to Roto-vegas) There seems to be a little run of golden weather on [...]

We are wimping out at the moment, we have taken the easy option and are hunkering down in Turangi while the rains are here. We can’t bear the thought of being trapped in the van for 10+ days without fresh air. I know we are being soft but I am sure you can sympathsise with [...]