!Hola from Bolivia¡ Hope everyone is well.Bolivia has been fantastic and really opened our eyes to South America providing exactly the kind of stuff we have been longing to see. We are now in La Paz after a 17 hour bus journey from Uyuni. The journey was supposed to be only 12 hours but the roads are pretty terrible and really waterlogged at the moment as its the wet season. We spent hours struggling through mud and rivers across the road which made sleepin...

Hola! We are now in Mendoza in Argentina. We landed in Chile on Monday, and have been pretty jet lagged as we left Auckland at 5.30pm Monday and arrived in Santiago at 12 midday, 5 1/2 hours before we left! Tried to stay up as late as possible to introduce some normality but Betty crashed out about 7.30 and I made it until about 9pm. Santiago was a bit strange and as we hadn´t really planned anything to see, we just spent the afternoon booking our bus tic...

Hello All, Sorry this entry has taken a while to appear but have tried and failed a number of times due to crap internet and dodgy electricity supplies....Here goes..We drove in to Auckland after leaving Mark and Heather in Roturoa in the morning. After some map reading problems and the essential ´getting lost and having an argument´ episode we found the depot where we had to pack up and leave Roger, our beloved campervan. A sad moment. The lady (quit...

Hello We crossed over from Picton to Wellington on the 21st January. The ferry bizzarrely takes 3 hours to go about 17km. The journey was pretty smooth tho and we both must have been suffering from TV withdrawl as we sat with the kids watching 2 movies. Arriving in Wellington we had planned to stay in a campsite close to the city and perhaps explore a bit. Unfortunately the campsite was a long way west from the centre so we decided to go north as that was the way...

Hello Hope everyone is well. This is where we are headed. The Picton to Wellington ferry leaves in a couple of hours so it's our last time on the South Island. It's certainly been a mixed bag. Our luck continued apace after we received the campervan back as we both immediately came down with colds. We drove on to Franz Josef Glacier nonetheless and when we arrived in a camp site near there promptly collapsed. We recovered a little to venture outside to...