Archive for the 'New Zealand' Category



Our Time in Auckland

The last week has been really enjoyable. We were lucky to have Hayden, an ultimate player, open his home to us. The weather has been lovely, and the neighborhood, well, that was lovely too. A lot of our time was spent along the main road in Ponsonby, the area where we’ve been staying - lots […]

Spencer has a Video

Unbelievably, it’s been almost two weeks since we were in the campervan with Spencer. Claire wrote a little bit about our adventures with him in the “South Island Adventures” post, but I finally finished the video of the three days we all spent together. Most of the videos I throw together in a day or […]

Getting to Auckland

The campervan made it back safely, after a very relaxing trip up through the North Island. We took the ferry over from Picton, and it was a lot clearer out that it had been on our trip south. So, the view was really something. We arrived in Wellington in the late afternoon, just in time […]

“The Great Unknown”

Travelling via campervan has proven to be the way to see New Zealand. Not to say that our Corolla didn’t do the trick on the South Island, but waking up to rain and not being stuck in a tent is pretty nice. Anyway, on Tuesday we picked up our campervan that has to be in […]