Hi y'all! from America! We arrived safely in Los Angeles after traveling back in time from Auckland! We left NZ at 8:10pm on the 16th after a short delay and arrived in America at 10:40am also on the 16th. This really affected us for the first few days as we couldn't remember what day it was. From the airport we managed to navigate ourselves around the metro system and arrived in Hollywood where we were staying for 5 nights. On checking into our hostel we fou...

Hello All Don't worry this blog is going to be much shorter than the previous monster! We safely arrived in Auckland after driving 5,202kms around New Zealand and said farewell to 'Old Smokey'.We caught the bus into town and checked into the hostel for our last four days in the country.Our first task was to find a barbers and get my lovely long locks cut as it had been around 80 days since its last cut and I was starting to resemble 'Cousin It' from the A...

Hello all Its been a while since our last update so hope you haven't put your lives on hold too much waiting for our next installment! After recovering from the Mt Ruapehu climb we drove the short distance to Lake Taupo which is the largest lake in the country - and it is huge!Here we visited the Huka Falls which was billed as New Zealand's Niagara Falls.When we arrived however we thought that either Niagara Falls isn't as high as we though or this is a maj...

Hello! Hope everyone is well back home. We made it safely across on the ferry to the north island and arrived in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. It was very strange being in a city again and hitting traffic after having the roads pretty much to ourselves for the last 3 weeks. We had to make our way out of the city to find a campsite in a suburb of Wellington. The campsite we stayed at had an awesome kids playground with a giant inflatable bouncy pillo...

Hello Everybody! Hope you are all keeping well! Well as Gavin has done the last two blogs while I've been out window shopping (no change there!)I was told it was my turn so here goes... We left you after our glacier expedition very tired but very glad that we had because the well deserved beer afterwards tasted so good! So the following day we headed north to a town called Hokitika so I could buy my friend Kirstie a necklace which she wanted to buy when ...