Monday, the day before heading back to the States. Since Cassie was working, I thought I would catch a cab into the city and have another day of wandering. It gave me a chance to explore some brewery tasting rooms and snap some photos. A month had already passed since...

We left Whangaparoa and were headed further north to the Coromandel; more specifically Whitianga (pronounced Fitty-onga). The drive was supposed to take 3 hours. However, as we drew within 40 minutes of the town, we came to a road block and a state worker wearing...

On Monday morning, I woke up with a terrible pain in my neck. The tent that Cassie had bought for our trip was a tad short for my height and I slept with my head to the side and my shoulders up next to my ears all night. At least we had makings for screwdrivers. We...

Saturday morning, we got up bright and early and caught an Uber into the city to pick up our rental car; we had reserved it back in February when we were planning our trip. We would be cruising around the north island in our little red Toyota Corolla. The gal at the...

The week following our trip to the river was what pretty mellow. The thing about wwoofing is that you never really know what kind of work you're going to be doing. When I was looking at hosts on the wwoofing site before leaving Montana, I had found the marae and...

Driving around town with Moritz, Drake and Tibo, we passed by a city park that I noticed had a skatepark. I made a mental note of where it was in relation to the library so I could check it out later. On Friday, I was dropped at the library to do some consulting for a...

On Wednesday, I went out exploring the grounds of the marae. It's a strange place. It has the vibe of a place that time has forgotten. This post is photo heavy, as I really want to show you how it looks here. The following photos were taken during the day, and then...

Over the weekend, Sue organized a fun event to an "Escape Room". There are various rooms that have different themes where the players are locked in and must find clues and use logic to escape from the room. Maybe you have played video games like this on your smart...

I made it out to my second farm. If you'll remember it was supposed to be my first farm, but due to an emergency that my hosts had, they had to cancel my first week with them. They live in a suburb of Auckland called Drury (more specifically Runciman) which is roughly...

It turns out that after spending a week at my first farm, with no internet connection, really limits my ability to post content here. I read a bit of news and got on Facebook, and was met with notification from Spark Mobile that I was running low on data. Gotta top...

On Sunday, we needed to get my phone situation worked out. But first we needed some beers and lunch. Cassie took me to a bar called Portland Public House, which is one of the first bars she went to solo when she moved here. We enjoyed local beers while munching...

Hello. First off, thanks for taking an interest in my trip. My blog will likely change and evolve as it develops. My purpose for creating it is to share the adventure with friends and family. I'll be posting a few photos to Facebook, but I'll include more photos here....