Archive for the 'Destinations' Category



Destination: Wanganui, North Island, NZ, February 27 – 28, 2006

Published on March 28, 2007

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 […]


Destination: Taranaki, North Island, NZ, February 19 – 26, 2007

Published on March 27, 2007

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 […]


Destination: Lake Taupo, North Island, NZ February 13 – 19, 2006

Published on March 26, 2007

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 […]


More on Kiwiburn: The Green Fairy

Published on March 11, 2007

I feel the need to pay homage to our Green Fairy theme camp as we pulled off something quite amazing at Kiwiburn which exceeded all of our expectations. From previous posts, you may have gleaned that we worked non-stop in January getting our theme camp ready for the festival. The official description on the Kiwiburn […]


Destination: Kiwiburn, A Taste of Utopia

Published on February 17, 2007

We had the pleasure of meeting and friending a young man at Kiwiburn named Brady. I had actually seen him around at the Convergence Festival in January, but never had the opportunity to meet him. He’s an amazing young man, wise and quite poetic. He scribbled a poem about his thoughts on […]