Journeying South... Monday 27th/Tuesday28th June We decided to start to head south, south is where its all at! But we had a bit of a journey on our hands, bit of ground to cover in our sturdy and reliable campervan! Via Lake Taupo, Napier on the East coast for a night then south towards Wellington to catch the ferry to the South Island across the 'Cook Straight'. Journey towards Wellington is again stunning scenery, very reminiscent of Glencoe or the Cairngo...

Rotorua, North Island This area is amazing, not only is it very geothermal with boiling mud and sprouting geysers but it is very rich in Maori culture. We pitched up in Rotorua and headed straight for 'Hells Gate' ... it was named this for obvious reasons, when you pay your admission fee you walk straight out onto walkways surrounded by what you would imagine the surface of Mars to look like!! However, it is the smell of the sulpher that hits you first .... ...

Waitomo Caves, North Island Drove from the Coromandel Penninsula to Waitamo, the notorious caves! We put on our New Zealand adventure hats and opted for the 'black labryinth' 3 hour tour - as its winter here the tourist numbers are low so it was only Mike and Myself and our crazy tour guide Terry. Our tour consisted of caving 65 metres underground in water caves, with rushing water and then rafting along underground white water on rubber rings, they call it bl...

New Zealand North Island so far..... Auckland/Orewa/Coromandel Penninsula (North Island) Unfortunately we have lost out on living Tuesday 21st June, gone forever so we hope nothing exciting happened!! 12 1/2 hour flight from LA to Auckland, we thought that this would be a horrible long flight but watched 3 movies, given fairly yummy plane food and a few cheeky drinks and before you know it we were landing on an island in the south pacific! We are so excited t...

Grand Canyon Ranch Saturday 18th June Picked up our 'cop car' from our Vegas hotel and headed out of Vegas and into the desert. Vegas is much more sprawling than we had imagined, but before we long we were in the searing heat in the desert. We made it to the Hoover Dam which is amazing, lots of James Bond movies filmed here! Off towards to cowboy ranch in the Grand Canyon, we stopped off at Dolan springs which happened to be a christian town and didnt look l...