Category: April 2025 – East Cape
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Back to the Real World
Full-Sized Life Our 1970s home (153sqm) was considered large for its time, when the average house was around 100sqm. For the past 10 days, Alan and I experienced life in just 17sqm of living space – quite the contrast! We mastered the art of the Sideways Shuffle, and Alan became very intuitive about fetching items…
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Day 6 – Gisborne
Beautiful Blue Dome Day in Gisborne Needing to top up with fresh water and empty both grey and black water tanks, we opted to stay in a commercial camping ground with access to power. Our choice was the Poverty Bay A&P Association Showgrounds. When we arrived I asked Alan why he chose to park right…
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Day 4 – Tolaga Bay to Gisborne
Sunrise Over the Pacific Ocean With the MetService issuing its Weather Warning across most of New Zealand, we were expecting to get drenched last night and wake up to a miserable, gloomy and wet day. We could definitely feel the wind buffeting the van through the night – I had visions of being blown into…
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Day 3 – Opotiki to Tolaga Bay
We clocked up approximately 300km today and crossed from the Eastern Bay of Plenty region into the Gisborne region. The weather was changeable, some of the roads in a really bad way but the scenery pretty beautiful. We both commented on how green it is in this part of Godzone Aotearoa New Zealand compared to…
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Day 1 – Home to Lake Karapiro
Things Don’t Always Go To Plan The plan was to collect the van (Dethleffs Trend 7057DBL) this morning, pack up with our gear from home and then head across to the Eastern Bay of Plenty. That was the plan. What really happened was loading our bikes (in the bike drawer Alan had made) took longer…
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