Well I have to talk about the birth place of our wonderful tinny fire, so we were on a beeline for Cromwell to meet John at his workshop where he builds these awesome log burners. So on arriving to lake Dunston, near Cromwell, we first had a swim as yu do, and then John joined [...]
On Leaving Our friends place in Kakinui we headed down to Dunedin, but only 20 minutes out of town our engine overheated. We did the usual pull over thing and had a quick look. Well, this is right up Paul's street - in a jiffy Paul could see that a seal on the radiator had [...]
Firstly to all our followers we - the vagabond family would like to wish you all the best for the new year of 2021. While we were here we were lucky enough to be part of the awesome Oamaru New Years street party which our dear friend Hailey organized, so with a big team effort [...]
Firstly ,we ,the vagabond family would like to wish you - all our followers, family and friends a very merry Christmas and happy holidays. So we go from a taste of Oamaru, to now, Crimbo in Kakinui, we eventual got ourselves sorted for Christmas, and settled into the holiday mode where we're able to relax [...]
I thought this Christmas spread that Lola and her friend Rio put together would be a good place to start Lola's blogging. Although Lola's made lots and lots of yummy things for us and our friends, this is nice and festive. As you might have read in one of our last blogs we shared Christmas [...]
We left the country town of Geraldine and cruised south spending a couple of nights at park over properties. Our first was night was near Ashburton where our friendly hosts invited us to see their beautiful classic cars they'd restored. Our second night was near Geraldine at a brewery with space to park - very [...]
Well we had a wonderfully busy time in Christchurch catching up with good friends and visiting some places we hold dear. see the posted photos of the views from Scarborough hill with Christchurch to the North and Taylors Mistake to the south. While we were there there was a little community surf comp going on [...]
So our ferry crossing went well as the missive ferry pulled into the little port of Picton, so here we were on the south Island and ready to explore. We spent that evening with friends - Happy campers too that we met in our home turf some time ago traveling in there classic bedford bus. [...]
Here we are now worked our way down the south island and left the snow caped peaks of Mount Ruapehu and headed for the coast where we met another family living with PWS in Wellington. We shared an evening and enjoyed a homecooked Mexican meal together. Their little girl isn't quite 2 years old, so [...]
So here we are, working our way down the North Island, visiting new places, meeting other families living with PWS, and catching up with old friends at cool spots, and now feel like we're fully in the groove. It's been wonderful connecting with the other families out there - spending time sharing ideas and knowledge [...]
