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 of setting up, which all went smoothly and in good time, the party was set to go off with a bang - well at midnight anyway with poppers a smoke. [...]

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 with our good friends and there 2 little kiddies for the festive time. We've put down roots for a couple of weeks in this beautiful spot, just a stroll from [...]

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 convenient for a pint. Traveling around this part of New Zealands flatter with long long straight roads with wind braking trees that go on for miles, which is quite a [...]

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 at Taylors mistake beach so it was buzzing that day. So after a long weekend in Christchurch we headed south taking the most stunningly scenic Akaroa road and on to [...]

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. We did a walk around Picton before leaving town for the county town of Murchison where there's another one of those wonderful park over properties where we camped for the [...]

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 Isla very much enjoyed mothering her while we were there- see photo. Our weekend in Wellington conveniently coincided with the Extravaganza Gypsy Fair, which was a fun filled few days. [...]

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 of PWS, what works for them and just simply being together. We're all enjoying our travel's through New Zealand, the Scenery  is so diverse -  I know we need to [...]

Well, here we are wwwwhhhhooooppppp  wwwwhhhhoooopppp, our adventures have just begun. We've been settling into our little bus well, and just feeling our way, simply recovering from a mantel time of complete craziness, and feeling good about it all. We broke away from our ties and spent last weekend at a friends beautiful lifestyle block, sharing time together, enjoying nature and cooking on fire. So now we're a little more relaxed we can start planning, as we're still to confirm dates with other families living [...]

This blog is for everyone whos kindly supported, and helped us in so many ways to propel the project forward. So here we share our gratitude for all you amazing people out there and of course our little community who have pulled together and supported a good cause. We first had the seedling of an idea in our heads - To raise awareness for Prador Willi syndrome by touring New Zealand in a bus. So we had to find the right bus, then adapted it [...]