After doing my washing and getting ready to head off back down south I rode the bike over my grandparents which is a lovely road without much traffic and lots of bends. For the evening celebrations my sister had all the kids over to where she lives at a motor camp (her boyfriend’s mother [...]

After another day lying in the sun for a little bit and then lazing about I walked into town to meet up with my best friend after she had finished work. While I was waiting for her there was a body, spirit and mind exhibition in the memorial hall so I decided to have [...]

I spent most of the day lying about the house reading and feeling slightly guilty about it. There are heaps of things that you can do in Paihia, swimming with dolphins, kitesurfing, parasailing, canoeing etc etc and if I wasn’t doing that I should have been catching up with a friends or spending more [...]

My grandparent’s next door neighbours had a couple of helmets so I took some of my cousins for a half an hour ride each. Brain Coles who is riding with his girlfriend Fie to Thailand sent an email saying how scary it was carrying someone that you love on the back of your bike [...]

Today I rode my bike out to Matauri bay to see my cousins who are camping there. I rode the bike out in the rain and almost tipped the bike going down the last bit to the beach as it is really steep and bendy. I still find that I don’t go around [...]

My sister and her husband flew back to Korea on Boxing day to start work on Wednesday so we were up at five to drive the four hours down to Auckland to get them to the airport by ten in the morning. After dropping them off we returned my new shoes that I had [...]

Merry Christmas to all my friends and anyone who has come across this website.
On Christmas day we opened our immediate family presents and then headed over to my grandmother’s but as we had our family day on Christmas Eve one of my aunt’s families took the opportunity to spend Christmas day with her husbands family [...]

Today I rode out to my grandmothers on the bike in order to help clean the hall and putting down a hungi for my sister’s wedding ceremony. I gave a couple of my cousins a spin around the spare lot next door. Putting on a hungi is the traditional Maori way of cooking [...]

Every year that I come home my godson Fyfe and I do an adventure activity. This year we went up to the northern most point of New Zealand to Cape Reinga where the state highway one starts as a gravel road and the Tasmania Sea meets the Pacific Ocean. One the way back [...]

I have three sisters and this is the first time we have all been at home for Christmas in the last ten years and only the second time we have all been together in that time period. I am the main culprit as it is too expensive to come home at this time of [...]

I rode Daisy up from Auckland this morning. I am going to look into getting a camera attached to my bike. Nigel said that he knew someone that had mounted a camera on a swizzle mounting. I would like to do something similar as I drove past some of the most beautiful [...]

When it is the desert road in the middle of New Zealand’s North Island. This region must be the most desolated, miserable place in the North Island which is why the New Zealand army training is based there. When I left Palmy in the morning it was raining and my trousers turned out [...]

There are two ways to Palmerston North (Palmy) from Wellington. One goes up the west coast along the number one highway and the second way is the number two highway up and over the Rimutaka Range. My mate, Bruce, after seeing me struggle in Wellington said I wasn’t ready for the Rimutaka Range [...]

Monday in Horokiwi dawned with a beautiful clear blue sky which is quite unusual for this area so before heading off to my next stop in Palmerston North I went up and took a panoramic shot. This photo doesn’t really give justice to the sky line as you are actually able to see both [...]

My old university friend lives on a lifestyle block twenty minutes north of central Wellington. The views from the property are amazing and look out towards both coasts. Unfortunately the weather in the Wellington area is pretty pants and it has been hard to get any decent photos. They also have three [...]