Well, that's it! We're back home. Back to the unpacking of belongings and trying to remember where we put things all those months ago; back to re-instating power, phone and internet connections; back to - dare we use the "W" word - work and all those horrible mundane things! But it is also a time to reflect and think of the highlights of the last year. How much we enjoyed San Francisco and the excitement of seeing the BMW for the first time. Setting of...

TUESDAY 9 OCTOBER - A Very Special Treat This was the day for our big treat of the trip and a visit to Zion Wildlife Gardens in Kamo, near Whangarei. Zion is the home to television's "Lion Man" Craig Busch and is a sanctuary to some of the world's rarest big cats - Barbary and white lions, Royal white and orange Bengall tigers, some very cute cubs, two Serval cats, a black leopard and a baboon. We took the tour of the park which was absolutely amazing ...

Week Commencing 24 September - PATIENCE IN PUKEKOHE As the week progresses it becomes apparent that, what we thought would be a quick and easy process to get the Tiger back in our possession, is not as we first thought. The first call to Jenners, the shipping agent in Auckland, on Monday morning gives us no reason to doubt that by Thursday, at the latest, we would be on the road and on our way to Northland and the Coromandel. A second call on Wednesday to see ...

We are in Russell at the moment where everything goes very slow, including the computers! We will add a blog when we get back to Auckland. Meanwhile, enjoy the photographs.

We are back in New Zealand,staying with John and Margeret in Auckland and have made new travel plans. We are going to collect the bike from the freighters in the next couple of days and tour Northland to Cape Reinga,around The Coromandel Peninsular and travel to Wellington via the East Cape so watch this space for Blogs and photo's We will see about working up to Christmas and then take off again for the US and the UK after that. In our last blog from Chile we sa...