Nelson has become a second home, and with it we found a second family. The long-termers and fellow workers we met at Tasman Bay Backpa...

We took a spontaneous day trip to the Nelson Lakes National Park with a few friends this week. The views were typical New Zealand stunners...

Sam has been playing a lot of music lately with Jeremias and Teppo, our fellow guests at Tasman Bay Backpackers . After serenading the ho...

Our last leg of driving up the West Coast, from Greymouth to Westport, transported me to a landscape I've always associated with Centr...

Mr. Kea gives a little flash of his red underwings. Our route has been mostly coastal, but we decided to cut across the middle of the So...

On the road from Arrowtown to Haast, we saw the landscape transform from rugged, dry mountains one might see in West Texas to a lush rai...

Fog & hot air balloons over Michael Hill's golf course. Our ten days in Arrowtown flew by. We worked hard painting the house and...

When you hear someone mention New Zealand, you might recall the epic scenery from Lord of the Rings. While the entire country is full of b...

From Invercargill we drove to Lumsden, a journey that can be made in 80 kilometers. We did it in about 280 kilometers, stopping along the...

If you've ever seen the film The World's Fastest Indian , you will have heard about Burt Munro and his customized motorcycle that ...

Just off the scenic road through the Catlins, there is a dummy holding a Curios sign, pointing to a big green caravan that looks like it c...

Due to rainy weather and our very kind hosts in Oamaru, we didn't end up camping in Moeraki on our way to Dunedin. We made an epic day...

We spent our last day in Christchurch tracking down a tent and lunching with our friends Elise & Sylvain , whom we first met in Auckla...

Nelson, known for being the sunniest place in New Zealand, has been mostly cloudy and pouring rain since we arrived, but we've still ma...