Hi again. Well, thats it more or less, 11 months of travelling and although can't wait to go home, we cannot believe where the time has gone! One minute in Queensland, the next ready to board the plane home. We are now in Canada, and a lot more relaxed we are too. Not something we can really put our fingers on, but things are definately quieter and cleaner and everything seems less of a drama somehow. We finished off our RV trip by driving the rest of the way across country to Chicago. The snow/rain/sleet eventually stopped and our last [View Full Entry]

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Hello or Howdy as they say out here (well, on the films anyway). So, after leaving the bright lights of Las Vegas behind, it was off to Death Valley and all that it conjures up. As advertised, a spooky place, not much habitation, not many people or vehicles and certainly a feeling of being the only people on earth. The landscape went from mountains to sand dunes, desert to salt flats and back again; the contrasts in the scenery were incredible. In an area called Badwater, we were at the lowest point in the USA - 86 metres below sea [View Full Entry]

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Another blog so soon - I am taking the opportunity while we have found a free internet in our motel!! Our last day in Flagstaff was spent on a day visit to the Grand Canyon. Had we realised how much accommodation there was, we probably would have stayed up there, but it was quite difficult to find anything we could afford on the Internet. As you drive up from Flagstaff, you are heading directly north, so in effect approaching the Grand Canyon from below. This makes for a very boring drive with nothing in particular to see, so when we [View Full Entry]

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Well Hello and for those of you who thought we had disappeared, 'tis not true, just couldn't find any cheap/free or any internet access etc yet again!! Anyway, we had a great 2 weeks in Fiji and are now in the great US of A, touring around a bit of California. We arrived in Fiji during a thunderstorm - not good for the nerves, especially as the wing of the plane got hit by lightening, but the pilot did a sterling job and managed to get us on the ground safely. I do hate it though when the reassuring tones of [View Full Entry]

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In case you're wondering whether I have gone all "street", Awesome is New zealanders favorite word so thought I would start using it too!! So, did I go crazy and bungy, jetboat, skydive and launch myself around Queenstown??? Of course not! It was a bit like Darwin in that we weren't in our 20s, we didn't have enough energy or money and I don't think my system could have coped with the input of adrenalin. That said, I did make it up the Gondola, and very steep it was too (Mandy wouldn't have done it!!) so got some fantastic photos while [View Full Entry]

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Yes, where has the time gone? 2 weeks since I updated the blog and it seems like a lifetime. We have been moving pretty quickly and consequently I have not been able to find internet machines/time etc to do an update. Still, I shall apologise no more,.,....... We left you on the East Coast in Oamuru where we had spent a miserable 2 days sheltering from the rain and waiting in vain for Penguins ... things brightened up a bit and Sunday morning we set off for Dunedin, a sizeable city and one which I had been promised contained a Chocolate [View Full Entry]

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Back in the little camper again and on the road. It felt quite good actually and armed with some burned CDs from Natalies IPod we set off for Hanmer Springs, down the coast and in a bit. After leaving the Marlborough hills behind, we followed the coast down until we came to a place called Kaikoura. Just before we came into town, we passed a caution road sign with a picture of a seal on (someone with a GSOH had added a circus ball to it's nose!) and then saw about 90 campervans abandoned at the side of the road. Logic [View Full Entry]

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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL*** I hope you had a good one and enjoyed yourselves. I thought I had better do an update as we head out of here tommorrow to explore the South Island for the next 5 weeks. We have had a very relaxing time over the last 3 weeks, helped enormously by the vast quantities of Sauvignon Blanc they make in this region and the fact that Gail and Mike have a Spa in their back garden. Kiera has had a fabulous time with her Aunt and Uncle and especially annoying her cousin Natalie who has been [View Full Entry]

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MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE SLACK BLOGGERS! Wherever you are and whomever you are with, we hope you have a fabulous time and we will be raising a glass to you all. Of course, we will get to celebrate a full 13 hours before you!! Once again, I apologise for not keeping up to date quickly but we have been on the move a lot so that we could see everything in North Island that we wanted to see before we set off for Riks brothers on South Island. We are now settled in Blenheim for the Christmas/New Year Period and are [View Full Entry]

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Hello again and I won't say Merry Christmas just yet. The decorations are all up here now and it seems really strange to even think that it is Christmas when it is sunny and hot. Mind you, not so much today (Monday) as once again we are holed up in a camp site while we have a dismal weather day. Still, can't all be glorious sunshine as we would soon get bored (?). I have to say though that the New Zealanders certainly give the British a run for their money moaning about the weather - must be that similar climate...... [View Full Entry]

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