After all the driving around we’d been doing in the USA, followed by some off-road adventuring around the mountainous back roads of Baja. It was time to slow down and enjoy the beach again. There is very little to report about our time in San Felipe.
The main reason we stopped for 10 days in Arizona was so that we could drive up to Flagstaff to attend Overland Expo 2014. For those who haven’t heard of Overland Expo (we hadn’t until we started planning this trip). It is a gathering of people who like to go adventuring in their vehicles. Whether those be 4WDs, motorbikes, or massive post-apocolyptic survival vehicles.
Photo Friday—The classic Kiwi road trip
Photo Friday—Mt Fyffe
Photo Friday—Fishing in Inle Lake
To visit an historical site in New Zealand often means a visit to a Māori pā site which will involve standing in a grassy field, or on a headland, looking at a ditch which marks an old fence line, perhaps another which denotes a storage area. Don’t get me wrong it’s always interesting, standing there in a spot where history was made. Even a grassy field can be enough to bring that history to life in your mind. But New Zealand (like the name suggests, good branding decision there guys) is a pretty new country. We don’t have stone structures from […]
There are easy ways to go sightseeing and then there are hard ways. Walking 100km in under 24 hours falls into the latter category.
As it turns out the people predicting the apocalypse have been disappointed. This happens a lot, it is unfortunate really. The day someone finally actually gets it right they won’t even get the opportunity to be smug about it.