Summer Roadtrip
highlights, travel 21 January 2010 5 commentsI took a long holiday after Xmas which involved nearly two weeks of road-tripping around the North Island with some of my oldest friends. The six of us bought an old van a couple of months ago especially for the trip, crossed our fingers that it wasn't going to break down, and worked out where we all wanted to go.
We spent a few nights camping in the Coromandel, went to Waihi Beach for New Year's to see Gin Whigmore & Dave Dobbyn perform, and ended up in Mount Maunganui for a couple of nights before heading back down south.
Highlights
- Spending time with some of my favourite people
- Lots of great summer weather
- Chocolate ice cream in a waffle cone
- Lounging on the beach for a whole day
- Making elaborate meals with minimal cooking equipment (and discovering that French toast works well on the barbeque)
- The van not breaking down at all!
Lowlights
- Waking up to a minor ant infestation our first night camping
- Thinking that the tent was going to blow away on a couple of windy nights (everything was fine though!)
- Slow holiday traffic on the way home







