Hello everyone, apologies for being away so long but it’s been increasingly difficult to find the time or a place to use the internet. However, we have now purchased a tiny Acer laptop so that we can write blogs as we do things and use the internet each night in our motels. We reckon we’ll save so much money and time this way – let’s hope so! So right now we are in Lone Star State, Texas – in a motel in Austin and I’m going to attempt to write my lat...

A week has gone since we arrived in Fiji and tonight we're off to Hawaii, so I guess this makes it a good time to update you on the last week. Well, we arrived in Fiji last Friday not really knowing what to expect and our first impression was that we were suddenly really hot again! This was a nice change from the New Zealand which was getting a little too chilly for us. So we checked into our hostel called Aquarius and immediately fell in love with it. It's no...

After 5 weeks in New Zealand we have finally left and arrived in Fiji and our last week was certainly very eventful so this blog will end up being another long one. My last blog finished just before we were due to get the Tranzalpine on Wednesday 8th so I will start this one from then. What I neglected to mention in my last blog was that on that Tuesday (the day I wrote the last blog) we headed into Christchurch and did the touristy things. First we caught a gond...

So another week has gone by and we have parked up for a few days in Christchurch. When I left off last time we had just enjoyed Puzzle World and were ready to tackle a hike through Mt Aspiring National Park. And so we got up bright and early on Wednesday, made a pack lunch, dusted off our walking boots and started driving towards the start of the track. Lonely Planet had described it as a fairly easy 2 hour return walk and so we were looking forward to a gentle s...

I can't believe that it's been almost a week since my sky dive, I remember it so vividly... But what else has been happening in the last few days? Well, the day after my sky dive we headed down towards Wellington to get the ferry across to the South Island and after driving for most of the day finally reached our caravan park which was situated near the port around 6pm. We were due to get the ferry at 8.20am and so spend the evening in our cabin which actually re...