Sunday 22 December Sunday didn’t really live up to its name either - an improvement on the previous day but could do better! I managed a...

Saturday 21 December Welcome to sunny Nelson, they said, the sunniest place in New Zealand according to NIWA! Well, today did NOT live...

Friday 20 December A grey and wet morning dawned in Momorangi so with a strict 10 o’clock deadline for check out, we had an early...

Thursday 19 December Woke to a partly sunny but very gusty day - met the local wildlife at the camp then pottered a bit before putting up...

W ednesday 18 December After a good night’s sleep (thanks still to the Sealegs drugs!) we awoke to a sunny but still extremely chilly...

Tuesday 17 December Windy Wellington - you do not take your nick name lightly! Woke up with Banjo still being rocked by a bit of a gale...

Monday 16 December After the peace and beauty of the Desert Road and the holiday vibes of Foxton Beach… what a change! It started raining...

Sunday 15 December Waking up on the summit of the Desert Road to a beautiful sunrise was what this odyssey is all about! After an early...

Saturday 14 December Our second morning dawned sunny again - public toilet trip and a failed cafe visit (too early!) were the first order...

Friday 13 December Woke to our first morning on the road to find most of the rain cleared and sun peeping out from behind the clouds. The...

Thursday 12 December And finally the day dawned… we woke in cousin Ian’s flat in Quay West, having stayed in town after Amy's birthday...

Once we had received word from Vanari that the Snowy River we ordered should be ready in November 2024, we began the enormous job of...

As per all the advice from the various online forums we have joined (and there were many!) we gave Banjo a good shakedown after we picked...

It turns out that ordering a van is a bit like a pregnancy - nine months in the making, lots of anxiety and heaps of excitement along the...

The countdown was on, with less than a fortnight to our departure, it was time to say haere ra to our lovely Auckland friends. Given...

This is he year that we finally fulfill our long awaited dream to leave the rat race and go tiki touring around Te Wai Pounamu, the South...