Sandboarding is fun!!!

This New Year

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January 3rd 2006
To all of our loved ones, please know that we think of you all often. As I sit here in.. wait where am I?.... Kohu kohu this town calls itself.... oh boy, what a long strange trip..... It's hard to believe that we've been on the road for six weeks already! I can't say that the time has whizzed by, but it's definately movin' and grovin'. New Zealand is definately taking it's own nice cozy space ... read more

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more