Ross and Wyn Davies Travel Blog

Today was our first day of work since our travels began. We started jobs on an orchard at Earnscleugh that dries apricots.  Hot Saturday got as hot as 32 degrees, so we got ourselves over to Brighton Beach and had a swim in the sea – that’s been a while since our last swim in the sea at Dunedin. Sunday was sorting ourselves out, retrieving some things from storage. We were late getting away – more like 4pm. We discovered that the whippy radio aerial on the luton is whipping itself against the luton, making quite a noise of itself. Continue reading →

Wow! It’s a hot and windy day here at Wingatui, near Mosgiel, near Dunedin. It was warm enough last night. And today at 2pm it’s 31 degrees inside and 31 degrees outside. It was blimmin’ hot for gardening yesterday, including carrying 1.3m of mulch in and spreading it on the garden – as we slowly melted. However, it got the job done and looks good, and if any weeds dare show their little heads …. Today has been catching up with friends and trying to keep cool. And trying to finish my library book so it can go back. And avoiding the pile of paperwork. It looks like summer has definitely arrived in Dunedin.

As per usual, we slept in at Awamoko, and all our neighbours had left by the time we emerged. I was preoccupied with how to start the car with the flat battery. And with keeping the house batteries charged up. And keen to try out the generator now that we had no neighbours. So I fired up the generator, and was busy charging the batteries. While making breakfast, I zapped my cereal in the microwave, but this proved too much for something. The load went on the generator, then it stopped. My heart sank and I started to look to see what I’d blown. Continue reading →

Sunday January 4th took a while to get going – we were late out of the camp and I got told off 🙁  We finally got out by mid-day, and set up in the car park at the top of the Gardens by the Alambra Ground. We did a few errands, had lunch – late as usual, and I checked out a guy with a radio-controlled model glider. If anyone was wondering what to get me for next Christmas, one of these would be fun 🙂 Continue reading →

Oh boy – how time flies when you’re not doing much.

So, we are all still alive and well, and relaxed. We’re currently overlooking the Wanaka basin on a lovely warm sunny afternoon. It looked like a calm day up the lake today and there were parking spaces in town. I guess everybody had gone out on the water or to the water or in the water. Unless they were packing up to go home after three weeks of wind. We’re up on a terrace above the Mt Barker Road – a zillion dollar view. Wyn is off mini-golfing with her son and grand-daughter. My two children are lazing about., reading and game-boying.  And I’m running out of excuses for not updating this blog.

Hi its Wyn here for a change, to give you my view of the day. We ‘slept in’ a little today until 8.00am.  Apparently most of the Motorhomers start the day in a very leisurely fashion so we must be getting into it. Mind you, our lovely viscose elastic mattress is definitely the most comfortable I have ever slept on. Continue reading →

It was strange for us returning to Dunedin earlier in the week, with our new status of No Fixed Abode. We set up in the Leith Valley Holiday Park – it’s handy to our storage locker and things we need.

We’ve enjoyed a few days catching up with family and friends, and trying to sort out our stuff. There was a pile of mail for almost three weeks. And boxes and boxes of stuff we’d set aside for loading into Suzi when we returned. We’ve realised it is just all too much, so there’s been a lot of thinking about what we’re really going to need, and when. We thought we’d reduced so well, but now realise more ruthless reduction is required.

We’ll be here all today – Friday – and now plan to get away to Central Otago tomorrow. Probably the general holiday rush to there starts today, but we’ve still got to get sorted here.

It didn’t take long for Super Signs to finish the decals. And then that was it – all finished in Pukekohe. So we headed out of town – across to Bombay, and onto SH1 heading south.  Yahoo.  We’ve got to like Pukekohe, but it’d been two weeks since we arrived, and time to get going. Continue reading →

Yesterday was decal day, sort of. We started with Traillite, sorting things out. Their service and attitude has been brilliant. The battery meter caused the most head scratching, and in the end got replaced. We met Smillie and Grant of ROAMNZ motorhome – she is another keen forum user. It is good to put faces to names, and both of them had some good tips on all sorts of things. Continue reading →

I’ve finally managed to upload a couple of pictures. If you check the tabs above, there’s one called Travel Pics, and one called Suzi Pics. If you click on any of the photos you can see them bigger, and you can flick from one to the next if you wish. Next thing I’ll have to get them into the writing as well…