NEW ZEALAND | Monday, 10 Aug 2020 | Views [365]
Wow life and the world has gone through a huge upheavel since the last entry in our blog and is continuing to do so. After the death of my Mum we went, as a country, straight into full lockdown in that we had to stay home unless going out for food, to ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 24 Mar 2020 | Views [423]
It started off good with WOMAD (World of Music and Dance) in New Plymouth. I go every year and camp from Friday to Monday and go each day and have an awesome experience. This year on the Sunday I had just gone into the grounds when I received a message ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Monday, 2 Mar 2020 | Views [400]
I have had a most awesome summer this year, the weather has been the best (Invercargill excluded) and I've been on my motorbike lots and lots and lots lol. After christmas a friend visited from USA and a group of women riders joined together to ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Monday, 18 Nov 2019 | Views [335]
The weather has been better than the last few years this spring, we're hoping for a wonderful summer.
After returning from USA I was here a couple of weeks then went to Oz to look after my granddaughter G in her school holidays. The weather is so ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 26 Aug 2019 | Views [466]
Mid July I flew with my friend and her partner to Los Angeles where I picked up a Triumph America 900cc as a rental and my friend bought a 2000 Harley Davidson Fatboy with 7,000 miles on it. We rode from LA out through Zion, Bryce Canyon, Route 12 &... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 7 Jul 2019 | Views [443]
In 2 weeks time I head off to the USA again for a month, two trips in one year wow! This trip has been in the planning for a couple of years. I am riding over there with my friend and her partner (he's on the back) we are riding LA to South Dakota return.... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 14 Apr 2019 | Views [572]
I did wonder about just not doing this any more... but if there's anything I've discovered about life it's that what I feel or think one day will invariably change tomorrow, next week, next year.
We have had an awesome summer in Kiwilandia this year.... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 21 Jul 2018 | Views [544]
Itchy feet, restless soul, unexpressed desires... That's me at the moment. I want to be wandering in a warm country, Greek Islands spring to mind for some reason. Maybe it's because of the cold, the rain and the seclusion from adventure that brings to ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 7 Jul 2018 | Views [452]
On the 7th of July 2008 I started this blog detailing the trip Kent and I were beginning to the Americas. Now 10 years later it still continues, now thoughts and musings interspersed with more travels. That trip of ours ended on 10 December 2010 so just ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 16 Jun 2018 | Views [573]
He looked at me - "Hey Whitey!"
It hit me hard, it was as if I saw him/me/the world clearly in that instant.
- I am not white as you are not brown. Within we are the same, unless we choose to be influenced by our one obvious difference -
If ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Thursday, 7 Jun 2018 | Views [687]
With much sadness I received a call on the last Sunday in May to say that a fellow rider, friend and possibly relative had died on her bike that day.
Hiria McRae was a unique, fiesty, intelligent woman I met through riding my motorbike. She rode an ... Read more >
INDIA | Sunday, 6 May 2018 | Photo Gallery
Delhi, Kerala, Lucknow, Kanpur wedding,
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NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 18 Apr 2018 | Views [643]
Age brings wisdom, so they say. I think age brings awareness about self and awareness about self brings awareness of interactions with others. That interaction brings ahah moments and brings you back around to awareness of self.
I am on a journey.... Read more >
INDIA | Wednesday, 14 Feb 2018 | Views [532]
Lucknow had interesting tombs and monuments to visit but is an extremely busy congested city. We stayed in the AirBNB of a lovely family who were so helpful to us and whose company we enjoyed whilst there. The monkeys and donkeys wandering the streets ... Read more >
INDIA | Thursday, 1 Feb 2018 | Views [511]
Kent and I travelled to India for 5 weeks from the end of January this year. India has been at the top of my "I loved travelling in this country' list since I travelled there for 5 months in 2004. The trip came about because I introduced my friend Pragya, ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Monday, 14 Aug 2017 | Views [650]
The trip from Memphis to Houston was uneventful and really not that interesting. It was great to spend a couple of days with my sister and husband and also got to visit with one of my oldest brothers and some of his whanau.
After arriving back in ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 24 Jul 2017 | Views [647]
We were welcomed into Memphis with sunshine, a rainbow and storm clouds!
We had 2 storrn fronts of both sheet and forked lightning. We drove through the first which was pretty exciting, lightning hitting the fields on either side. One bolt was ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 23 Jul 2017 | Views [705]
Whilst traveling I lost my phone. I had became aware of the fact when we were in the car. 5 of us traveling south in Iowa USA. First thought was where had I used it last. It was the motorcycle museum we had visited an hour or so back. I searched where ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 17 Jul 2017 | Views [596]
It was great to meet up with my sisters in Winnipeg. We stayed, 5 of us, in a great AirBNB right in the middle of town. We had a rental car and attended all the ceremonies organised by the early settlers organisation. We were interviewed by the local ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 15 Jul 2017 | Views [658]
We are all on the Aspergers spectrum somewhere it's really just a matter of whether our level is noticeable by others or not.
I for example am often too direct in my speech and not the best socially and that helps me relate to my man who is ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 28 Jun 2017 | Views [665]
Knowledge or our understanding of the rules of the universe is expanding faster and faster because the base of our knowledge continues to grow. So, like Cantons ideas on infinity, the gaps between the lines create questions to be answered in themselves.... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 24 Jun 2017 | Views [806]
By Ken Follett, a good read, second book of his I've read. Talk about a corrupt society. Sadly it is a constant in our world. I had thought New Zealand to be less affected than other countries I have travelled in but I have come to realise that it is ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 20 May 2017 | Views [616]
We see everything in terms of light and shade. If all colour were removed we would still see the scene because each item in the scene is a differing shade of grey. Think about that - each item! Each leaf on each tree of a forest, each blade of ... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 19 May 2017 | Views [677]
Apparently I'm 'WHITE', it's not a thing I have noticed myself much but lately it is hitting me often in the face especially on social media. I haven't noticed colour really in relation to people, friends and family, but I'm being asked to more and more.... Read more >
NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 17 May 2017 | Views [618]
I had a wonderful birthday this year. It was a lovely day and I couldn't think of anything more enjoyable than using my bike as it will get cold and gloomy soon enough. I rode to Maori class, the class was fun and interesting, my brain is not the best ... Read more >
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