Whoa. It’s been a week since we left the festival and the mind reels. What just happened? Who would have thought that Kiwiburn could have been better than last year? It was. Wow.
Kiwiburn07 was pretty darn good – many of us felt the event achieved the essence of Burning […]
I can’t quite recall how the idea began. I think it started when several of the Kiwiburn ExCom members started talking about their upcoming trip to the playa for Burning Man, and someone said, ‘Hey, we should have a We’re Not Going To Burning Man’ party for those of us left behind.
What’s the counter […]
This will be a much shorter post than the last as we only stopped in Wanganui for two nights. But it’s worth a mention.
The Wanganui region (population 45,300, with 41,000 located in Wanganui city) is dominated by the mighty Whanganui River, which is the only way to reach the isolated interior of the […]
After Taupo, we started making our way over to the Taranaki region. Located in the mid-western part of the north island, this area is named after the Mt. Taranaki volcano, also called Mt. Egmont, the massive cone of which dominates the landscape (if you’re lucky enough to see it!). This was […]
Well, I am long overdue for journalling about our North Island adventure, but we saw and did so many cool things, that I just have to document it for all our friends and family (and for myself too!)
We ended up spending a week in Lake Taupo township, catching up on sleep and decompressing after our […]