We've been home now for six months and I thought it was time to write another blog to keep our followers informed and up to date. As we have been home I have chosen a cover photo my sister sent us from England, I hope she doesn't mind. Since getting home the bike has been shipped to Melbourne and is now resting in my mothers garage waiting to one day continue its adventure. Since we have been home in Perth our daughter has stopped working for us and has moved ...

Christchurch must have been a lovely city before the earthquake knocked it down, it is hard to believe it looks the way it does, there is still so much work ahead to get the city back. From Christchurch we headed inland to Mount Cook. We stopped at Lake Tekapo to look at the old stone church, the wind was just incredible and it had made riding so unpleasant, and scary for Julie. We could see lots of cloud in the direction of Mt Cook and we had been told that if y...

Leaving Auckland we wanted to steer clear of the tourist sites, we will save them for when Sarah, Richard and Ella join us for Christmas. We did however still want to see something of the sights and not just ride down to the South Island, so using our Motorcycle Atlas of New Zealand we managed to set a route down the west coast to New Plymouth, then head east a bit then south to Wanganui before heading east again, then south to Masterton before catching the ferry...

Just a quick blog to let you know we are now in New Zealand. Not wanting to brag, but on the way over we used our points to upgrade to Business Class with Emirates, wow, this is the way to travel! As my mother said,"so money can buy comfort", but it can't buy happiness. After this high we were finally let down by our bike, not that we really blame it. We went to pick it up from the shippers and had to jump start it, but when it stopped again we couldn't get it st...

As always when we leave a country it is a little sad and after spending six mounths touring around North America it was very sad. We had met so many great people and made so many friends, it was starting to feel like home! Just a couple of stats before I go on; This year we visited 24 states of the US and three provences of Canada, giving us a total of 35 states and 7 provences. We clocked up 40,000Km this year, giving us a total of nearly 53,000Km in North Amer...