Three Day Journey Down the Whanganui River For our second Great Walk we decided to give our legs a break and get our arms pumping with a three day canoe trip down the Whanganui River. When we first planned this trip we were envisioning white water rafting down a roaring river in our badass canoe, cause after-all what’s more badass than a canoe?… Read More
Hiking the Tongariro Northern Circuit While in New Zealand we really wanted to channel our inner Kiwi and attempt to be fully functional outdoorsman/woman. A little different from our former 9-5 desk jobs where the most outdoor action we got was an hour lunch. This lead us to one of New Zealand’s more challenging Great Walks, The Tongariro Northern Circuit. To give… Read More
Insiders Guide to Matakana, New Zealand To play on a lyric from one of our favorite disney movies… Hakuna-Matakana, what a wonderful place! It means no worries for the rest of your days… Ok we’ll stop now. When we arrived in New Zealand we spent our first week Wwoofing an hour north of Auckland, in the Matakana region. For those of you… Read More
How to Pack for Long-Term Travel Believe it or not, “How are you going to pack?” was by far the question we were both asked most when we told people about our trip. They didn’t want to know where we were going or how we were going to get there, they just wanted to know what we were going to bring with us. I… Read More