my travels in pixels

I was pretty excited when I got an email from Qantas about a New Zealand sale. Air New Zealand was too and we got two return tickets for $715. I'm sure we paid around that price 33 years ago when we went there on our honeymoon! Lindsay & I back in 1986 - he's front right, I'm back left New Zealand is a beautiful country and it doesn't take that long to drive anywhere. I had found a website called inafarawayland written by a Polish girl who worked in New Zealand. She has published a number of itineraries and photography spots to choose from, plus she takes stunning photographs. Landscape photography is not Lindsay's passion, so two weeks would be enough he decided especially when fishing season starts again in December. I thought an RV would be a good mode of transport, so that if I was off photographing he could have a nap, cup of tea or watch a movie. For such a short period I concentrated on the South Island only. I bought the Wikicamps app fo...

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It's quite a long drive from Epupa Falls down to Etosha National Park. We stopped off at the supermarket and service station in Opuwo to fill up the car and our fridge. Then as we were coming south there was a quarantine gate for foot and mouth disease. Did we have any meat, again? yes because we had just filled up at the supermarket as there were no other shops between here and our next destination. Damn it. She said we could cook it then and there, but why would we want to do that when we are trying to get to our next destination. We gave them a few sacrificial items and then cooked up what was left when we got to our next stop, what is a 100kms in the middle of a desert really? It's what the locals do. I thought we had missed our turn off, so we went back only to find that the route google had given me had a locked gate on it. It's so annoying when you waste time like that. It turned out that Tom Tom was correct and we ended up having to go further south to then...