Oh well, all good things must come to an end :-( We'll be back!

Well arriving in the USA after chilled out Rarotonga was a big shock to the system. After a 9 hour flight we landed in LA airport and had to have finger prints taken, an aggressive woman was barking at us to fill in our forms properly and then Kam was taken away and interrogated for ages, loads of stupid questions and suspicious looks. He was eventually released and then we had to go and find American Airlines to get our internal flight to San Fran, that was a lo...

You know that when you arrive at an airport at 2.40 in the morning and theres a cheery guy singing a welcome song that its going to be a friendly happy place!! We had such a great time in the Cook Islands, we chose a great hostel which was on the west side of the island and it had a pool and hammocks on this amazing postcard perfect beach. We have never seen anywhere so stunning...there was white sand, turquiose water and palm trees swaying in the wind, the sea ...

So our Auckland entry wasn't suppose to be for another few weeks...but will explain later!!! After leaving the corromandel we thought we would make our way towards Auckland..stay for one night on the outskirts and then go north to the Bay of Islands for our last few weeks in NZ. We were originally going to stay in a caravan park that was by the beach and quite remote but at the last minute I thought we should head to one in Manauka which is south of the city. We ...

So Rodney got us safely up to the Corromandel peninsula. And at last we got to see some beauty in the North Island!! Our first stop was Whangamata, we had read about a fish and chip shop here highly recommended by Lonely planet so we thought we would treat ourselves!!! We sat on a really pretty beach and had them which was nice. We stayed at a motorcamp there for the night and although Whangamata was a really tiny place it was really noisy all night long!! Th...