Well we are still waiting for the new year ball to drop in san fransisco, so we thought a update on the last month would surfice. 18 days in the Cook Islands - BLISS! We are tantastic!! Last sun tans we will have for a long time. When we arrived in Raratonga we stepped off the plane onto the runway, HUMID....walking into customs with a 80 year old local playing the banjo....although we were exhasuted it put a big smile on our faces. What didnt make us smil...

(As this is a long blog you might find at the end of a paragraph a sentence just ends, just click on it and the rest will appear) We sold the Spartacus! Woo hoo! $1200 richer . Not bad, considering we payed $700 for the old motor. We loved & hated the car, but it took us 8300km around n.z....so, farewell. Well we have had a brill time over here, only 2 more days left in Auckland before we fly to the Cook Islands on the 9th. After leaving Wanaka, where w...

We are starting our return journey north now. We have travelled from Queenstown to Wanaka today and have just returned from puzzle world where we successfully completed the maze in an resonable time..good on us. However the puzzle games were a different kettle of fish and all together it took me over an hour to complete one of the small puzzles! I kept my cool and resisted kicking the helpers backside everytime time he asked me if i needed help...NO I DONT! b*...

We are 4 weeks into travelling New Zealand. Since our last Blog we travelled to Wellington and made our way from the North Island to the South Island via the Ferry. The landscape in the South Islands is even more amazing than the North. We have covered quite a large areae now , so far we have clocked around 3500km. No more problems have arisen with the car, our knowledge of car maintenance increases by the day. When we crossed to the South Islands we arrived in...

Right ....We have covered near 1800km in Old Spartacus, its only taken us 3 jump starts, 1 use of jump leads, a car full of kids, and a brand new battery. Oh wait...not to forget Sucky Moto, a mobile petrol tank drainer after filling the car up with Diesel , when the car takes Petrol! Its going fine now...hopefully there should be no more drama. No..No....We broke down on the Forgotten Highway on a steep vertical incline and had to turn it around and jump start i...