What's he doing? Praying to Mecca? Doing the wave? Yoga? Nope, he's trying to avoid (further) brain damage and keep his core temperature down. Don't get me wrong here, we're not complaining, but Holy Hot Batman. It's supposed to get up to 39C today -"but it's a dry heat...er whatever"! Luckily we don't have anything really to do, no people to meet and no deadlines to make so we've been keeping our exertion to a minimum. It's supposed to cool down to 30C...

Just a quick update from our first two days in Perth. Our apartment is even better than what we had hoped for. It's roomy, has a well-equipped kitchen (very important) and a fantastic terrace with views of the sand dunes and the ocean. The weather so far has been great, around 25C during the day but nice and cool at night. Today we decided to take our hosts up on their offer to lend us bikes. Helmets are mandatory and did NOT come in Jason's head size . His bike...

This place is not nick-named "Fartopolis" for nothing. Thank goodness we camped several kilometres outside of Rotorua last night. We had envisioned staying the day here, and possibly even taking advantage of some free thermal baths that the town offered. We toured the museum first and got the whole history of the place which was very interesting, but it boggles the mind that people have been living here with this oppressive smell for that long. The bath...

We are back in Auckland - where it all started. We spent our last couple of days mostly as follows: get up in the morning, have breakie, pack up the White Bullet (at that point we were down to about 3 minutes...), hit the road in search of the perfect little cafe with lots of free magazines and newspapers where we would spend a good two hours nursing a "flat white" and sharing some bakings... life is good . Then some sight seeing, people watching - whic...

Hi Everyone, We've just arrived back on the North Island after a wonderful tour of the Southern Island. It was way less populated and busy and way more wild than the Northern island. We celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary in the Abel Tasman area. We managed to shake the cyclones that had been following us and the weather there was flawless. We decided that a place as beautiful as this deserved a special activity so we rented Sea Kayaks for 2 days. It was such...