After the caves we booked it to Hamilton to celebrate my 26th bday. This was also a special day for our group becasue a very important concept was born - urban camping! Basically, the main objective was to find a perfect parking spot for our RV that was both free and conducive for stumbling home from the bars. We found an ideal location and started getting ready for the night; we did not, however, remember to shut the waste water valve while we were showering (ro...

I was nominated to be the first driver out of Aukland to our first destination, hot water beach. I pretty much set the tone as the best RV driver of the trip with that first leg (we made unreal time and only 50% of us were nauseated after all the mountains we had to wind through). When we got to our destination, it was surreal - hundreds of people with shovels and swim suits hanging out in dug-out "hot tubs" warmed by the geothermal springs beneath the sands and ...

Our epic journey begins.... We got off the 24 hour+ journey and hit the ground running. We went to pick up our mode of transportation/mobile hotel for the next 16 days. Unbeknownst to us, we were upgraded to the 6 berth deluxe version. How would 4 assclowns manage to drive this huge RV on the opposite side of the road on small winding mountain pass roads...only time would tell!