YellyElly

So, the time has come to say a sad goodbye to our faithful campervan and we have sold it to a friend of ours in Wellington. While we’re sad to give it up, at least we know it’s going to be loved and taken on lots of great adventures. It’s surprising how attached you can [...]

So we decided to upgrade our little campervan for something a little more rock ‘n’ roll. It’s a bitch to park though!

Following a chat with a local at Mahia, we took a little detour from our coastal route to Napier and headed for the Waikaremoana Lake at an elevation of 585 metres. The crisp sunny days we spent at the lake turned into below zero nights and our van froze inside and out. So cold in [...]

You all keep asking about life in the van and just how much space we have and what it looks like and where we sleep and where we cook, etc. etc. etc. Here’s a little look at our home on wheels. Video tour coming soon… 

So… I managed to reverse our van into a ditch whilst attempting a turn in the road. Ah hem. It was a big ditch (see ravine) and the harder I tried to get us out, the further back we went with wheels spinning, which was a little disconcerting to say the least. The scene led [...]

So this is my first attempt at logging our great adventure. Here goes…we have just arrived back in something similar to civilisation after several days in the wilderness and isolation of the ‘far north’. We drove up to Cape Reinga passing the last gas station in the country and traveling on bumpy gravel tracks that [...]

Having loaded all of our belongings into our new campervan, we headed out of Auckland as directly as possible. Driving a long van around in a city you don’t know is not fun and we wanted to hit the road as fast as possible. One important detail about our lovely home on wheels is that [...]

So we’ve taken a big step and bought a home. After doing some sums we decided that buying a used campervan was more economical than renting one. This way we can travel around the country as long as we want with no deadlines for finding a place to stay, and we’ve got wheels.
Campervans are the [...]