What a bad blogger I am.
Well, for the last couple of weeks we have gone pretty much around the North Island, clockwise.
We started by heading north from Earthsong, right to the top of the North Island, to a beautiful quiet campsite on Spirits Bay. Back down, past Kauri forests, round and down to Rotorua for geysers and strangely coloured rocks; down to Taupo then off to see the "rellies" at Havelock North, where we stopped for a few days.
After that, down to Wellington, then up the east coast to New Plymouth, Mount Taranaki (which was wonderful, though we couldn't see it clearly in the clouds), then towards Hamilton, and finally back to Auckland, where we are now.
We've had a few adventures, seen parks and zoos, slept by beaches, lakes, rivers, mountains; we've run out of petrol (oops), drunk lots of tea, and even stopped in a McDonalds (twice; once, their milkshake machine was broken, so we walked out again).
Our trip is almost over. Soon, to France, then a hectic few days in the UK, and finally Ireland to settle down for a couple of years and actually learn some of this permaculture stuff.. wow! I'm really looking forward to it.
Right now is definately time to "go home" for us (except we don't have real homes, and we're going our separate ways for the time being, which is very sad); I just wonder how much longing I'll look back on this trip with in a few months and years?!
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