Welcome to my Backyard!

I'm Journeying from
Spirits Bay | Northland
to Slope Point | Southland.
View Todays highlight
on my daily postcard. 

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2017-2021
I ditched the office, hitched a lift with an Urban Gypsy alongside her travelling sidekick dog, Badger and went on a road trip adventure over 5 years and 54,000km to see the 'gems' that make NZ the Greatest' country on the planet.

2024 
I'm revisiting all my previous haunts and discovering many more too in 2024. This website will be a growing compendium of my daily travel spots I love.

...Starting in NORTHLAND you will discover  many more hot spots. 

During 2025 the other REGION TABS will be slowly filled day by day. Eventually concluding in the South Island sometime late into 2025, possibly 2026.

60,000

Kilometres of Road Tripping in New Zealand | Aotearoa

2017 - 2021

5 Year Campervan Adventure

2024-25

Northland, Waikato, 
Hauraki Coromandel, Bay of Plenty, Rotorua, Taranaki, Taupo, Whanganui, Manawhenua, Wellington, Wairarapa, Hawkes Bay

Today's postcard...

Rugby museum of nz

With new Captain...sorry, Ritchie. 

New Zealand is packed full of magical gems

After 60,000 kilometres of trekking NZ, you'd think I'd seen it all. I haven't.
Still stumbling across new discoveries.
The country that keeps on giving.