An Unexpected re-entry into Europe

Two months away from Maggie.  Naively expecting to just jump in and drive her away to the south to get away from the wintery north.  Ah yes, it was not to be.  Maggie was reluctant to begin her journey and had to be towed.  After an eventful couple of weeks we towed her to a […]

Ro-Ro and Problems with Shipping

Overcharged Has anyone else had this problem with getting your motorhome overseas? Hoegh Autoliners was the shipping company that we used to get our camper van to New Zealand through our agent, Sefco,  You might have read when I dropped off Maggie at Bremerhaven. The original quote from Sefco was US$4.798, which we paid on […]

Truck shipping in Bremerhaven with Sefco

I just dropped off Maggie at Bremerhaven where the good people at Sefco Export will get her onto a ship. Its not easy entrusting your home to a group of strangers but they have gone the extra mile to help us out. Bremerhaven is a historic town, where many Germans boarded ships for other lands. […]

Freakstock…Again

Well, once again we were to be found at The Freakstock Festival in Germany. We think this makes 9 years we have gone. We didn’t plan to come back for the very next year but here we are. First we had to reunite the family. Sam is back after about a year and a half […]

Surreal Spaces

Do you sometimes feel like you are caught in a surreal space. Somewhere between reality and a dream-like trance. Seems I find myself in that place often. I am currently sitting in front of our truck in the centre of an exhibition space at a festival with over 100,000 attendees. Not sure why we are […]

Cheap Thrills in Germany

Here we are, still in Germany. Actually we are in Bad Gogging. It is an ancient spa town from Roman Empire days. Lots of statues of old, dead Roman dudes. We thought a spa town would be a great place to have Andrew’s birthday as Andrew has had memorable spa experiences on 2 other birthdays. […]

Leaving “Easter Island”

Leaving “Easter Island” after 3 weeks. What an amazing time. We finally got the brake seal on Thursday. Willie and Andrew fixed the truck the same day. Abi wanted to stay a few more days so she could celebrate her 15th birthday with her new friends. Hanna took the opportunity to learn some graffiti art […]

Ahhhh Plans

What do they say. The best laid plans of mice and men. We made plans to go to India and a major catastrophic event happens to wipe out most of the roads. What is that about. Well….. we think to ourselves. We can help. Help how. Bringing in stuff. But then what. Do we just […]

Let Us Be

The morning sun is streaming into the truck. TJs new friend, Jet, is knocking at the door. I open the door and look out. It is time to get up. Inigo went on a slow meandering walk with a little girl, her dad and her dog. They live in the truck just up from ours […]

Piercing and Pizza

Just been to Freakstock Festival again. We aren’t too sure how many times we have been yet. There is some discrepancy with the family historians. Dad says 7 times. Abi says 9 times. I say ALOT OF TIMES. Back at the Coptic Monastary/military base. Lots of people!!! Lots of really cool trucks and creative people […]