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Safety Room day 54 : Goodnight & Sweet dreams.
Saturday the 16th of April, 2011. Dear friends, it has been a while since my last post (around two months, in fact). Following the Fairlady registering her displeasure with gearbox troubles on Day 67, things turned from bad to worse; much, … Continue reading
Posted in Fairlady, Nissan Datsun, Trailer
Tagged "Character", fail, Fairlady, Impediments, Nelson, South Island, trailer box
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Day 67 : Returning home Part Two.
Sunday the 13th of February, 2011. Our 67th day started at a the Hawthorn Lounge, a crowded Poker bar in central Wellington. After pretending to play cards for a while we returned to the Fairlady and made our way to … Continue reading
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Tagged Big decisions, camping, Disappointments, expenses, fail, Fairlady, GOLD!, Positivity, Scenery
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Day 66 : Returning home Part One.
Saturday the 12th of February, 2011. 9 days left. Wellington’s weather was so much better to us this time around as we left our dream mid-city skody apartment for an early meeting with local friends Jem Yoshioka and Timothy Greig, … Continue reading
Day 64 : I’m not filming tears.
Photos to come Thursday the 10th of February, 2011. 11 days left. As neither of us had set an alarm our sleep carried on and on in the old school in Alton. The longer we slept though the longer we … Continue reading
Posted in Alton
Tagged ALTON!, fitting in, Interviews, North Island, Serendipity, Tears, WIN!
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Day 63 : It’s what he Doesn’t say…
Photos to come Wednesday the 9th of February, 2011. 12 days left. When considering this day, it’s difficult to fathom that it was just one. Rising at 5:30am could have something to do with it, but so too could the … Continue reading
Posted in Alton
Tagged ALTON!, Consultants, fitting in, GOLD!, North Island, Serendipity, WIN!
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Day 61 : Lunch with a Goat & dirty French sheets.
More photos to come Monday the 7th of February, 2011. 14 days left. Today started with incredible exhaustion; Andis and I packed our things in an auto-mode of zombie like walking minimal verbalisation. At the Stratford New World we stared … Continue reading
Posted in Taranaki
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Day 60 : The Forgotten World Highway
More photos to come Sunday the 6th of February,2011. 15 days left. Today we drove on a highway that despite it’s name suggests, has been mentioned and recommended to us more times than any other single place or stretch of … Continue reading
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Day 58 : Reliable Weather.
Friday the 4th of February, 2011. I awoke to the sound of rain sometime in the morning, and when we emerged from the tent in the early afternoon, the atmosphere was still an unpleasant one of muggy humidity and intermittent … Continue reading
Posted in Taupo
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Day 57 : Hamilton ~ from pointless to delicious
Thursday the 3rd of February, 2011. Photos to come. Waking to heat and humidity after a pretty shocking night’s ‘sleep’ wasn’t the greatest start to the day, and on first glance and even following some investigation, the city of Hamilton … Continue reading
Posted in Waikato
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Day 56 : The LAST DAY in Auckland
Wednesday the 2nd of February, 2011. Photos to come. We are in Hamilton, though specifically where we couldn’t say. True to form it was nearing 10pm and we were driving the streets looking for accommodation. On the day we were … Continue reading
Posted in Waikato
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Anna Wilde
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Who is New Zealand? 