Connectivity on the road

Let’s face it in today’s world being connected is everything, its how we bank, contact family, research places to stay, make bookings etc We recently signed up to Wireless Nation (no this is not sponsored) and give you our impressions of the connection.  

Fitting a Fiat Ducato spare wheel holder

There’s never enough room in the boot of your camper, especially if your a toy collector like myself. I’d been exploring options to remove the spare wheel from the garage and found out there’s actually a factory fitted part that can be installed, with nothing to loose we did just that. This video shows the […]

Waitomo and West Coast Harbours

Waitomo, what a gem of a place to explore. The Top 10 Holiday Park at Waitomo gets special mention for the amazingly clean facilities. Enjoy this vlog of our trip away

Suspension upgrade to 4t

After purchasing our motorhome and weighing it we were on the edge of the 3.5t capacity fully loaded and to be honesty the van handled like an absolute pig. Rolled in to corners, wallowed in and out of dips and felt generally unsafe to drive. I did a heap of google searching and came across […]

Wenderholm Regional Park

An overnighter to Wenderholm Regional Park, the initial forecast was looking somewhat marginal with Cyclone Cody due to hit the east coast of New Zealand, but in the true spirit of lets do it anyway plans and bookings were made. Thankfully Cody moved off to the east and other than a nice onshore Easterly breeze […]

Te Haruhi Bay, Whangaparoa – Our first overnighter

Our first overnight trip in the motorhome to test out all the systems in a real life situation but also an opportunity to explore our backyard. The end of Whangaparoa peninsula is no stranger to me with my earliest memories being taken out on day trips 50+ years ago to collect cockles from the shores […]