Surprise, surprise still here but our departure is imminent, well in the next day or so anyway. Our lovely RV friends Steve and Janine returned to blustery weather here on the Coromandel so they arrived to special coffees just to warm them up. We are enjoying the benefits of charging […]
Yearly archives: 2020
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We are still here in the Coromandel with plans at this stage, North or South being the major decision and this is based on other factors, there is a potential 5th Wheel rally or fun up north with friends so the decision will be made when it is made lol. […]
Another week at Long Bay Coromandel and it still feels like yesterday that we started the journey. At the pace we have set in this early stage to travel New Zealand we may not finish. The journey to date has had all the trappings of being on the road yet […]
Another week gone and we are really enjoying being on the road again., still loving Long Bay Camp; the owners are just lovely and really welcoming. We have made some new friends over this week; The first woman I met has a caravan here at the camp long-term and a […]
We departed Pukekoe AMP show grounds yesterday with no fuss and some trepidation as we were heading up the Coromandel west coast road. Before commencing the diatribe of the trip I/we would like to express that the AMP showgrounds at Pukekoe would be one of the top spots to stay. […]
A lot of water has passed under the bridge since we last posted; not least of the events would be Covid-19. We had returned home to complete both RV and home tasks before we ran away for real; barking the gardens, installing the awnings and a gathering of friends to […]
What a difference a week makes to lives. We had hoped for a little window of opportunity to run away before the big lockdown at level 4. There were several obstacles in our path; waiting for our new specs to arrive, Rod having his post-cancer go-pro and I was due […]
The list of work to complete prior to getting back on the road is slowly but surely being whittled down. We have set a tentative date of the 6th of April to depart and begin our journey. That is as long as Tinker Bell alias “Cindy” does not put the […]
The arrival home was a non-event except for Mac and Rose who went nuts checking out the property and looking for old bones etc. It was interesting to watch them; particularly when we have continued to sleep on Dogonit rather than in our wing of the house. Our lovely house-sitter […]
We left Taupo NZMCA camp and meandered up to Ngongotaha NZMCA camp just north of Rotorua. The journey was uneventful with the weather and the roads making it an enjoyable trip. We established camp on the upper level with a view of the lake. We were visited by John and […]