“Home is the nicest word there is.” Laura Ingalls Wilder. We’ve found it! A place where all of us, quite unanimously, think we could live. Raglan we love you. We’ve driven through New Zealand for nearly 3 months now, stopping along the way for Helpex work or staying with friends and we …read more…
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings― Are you fit enough? The sign demanded us to check on our ability to …read more…
“She’s a manual?! So she goes pretty well!” the burly hitcher we’ve just picked up is surprised. In the fifteen minutes he’s been with us we’ve learnt a little of his home town (there’s nothing to do), his work out on factory fishing boats (it pays well), and how impressed he is …read more…
I’m reluctant to go in and pull my hoody tighter around me. I’ve always been brave with cold water and hope my hardiness has not dissolved in the warm waters of Tonga. The kids yelp with excitement and delight as they leap the white foam of the clean cold waves. The beach is wide …read more…