Trish Is Getting Sneaky! Rving Kaiteriteri, NZ (KYD 145)

And then we get on the road and we go down. And we're going to go see these two places today. Beach down to the bottom. Beach. Okay. So you've covered it. That's it. We're going to the beach. Beach. This is a pretty cool trail down off the road to get up to a swimming hole. Well, that's not a bad view for a site. And this is a reserve beach reserve, which means it's $5 per person per night. Kids under 16. They are free. So it's $10 with an ocean view. This class C stuff is much tighter than we're used to. Like back in the States with monster rates, but is the coolest feeling to pull in somewhere and be like done. I don't even have to get outside. I know. We will share with you that we felt like we have made a pretty significant mistake. Yes. Because of our little mishap with the gray tank, we were going through Melboro, Melbourne, Melbourne, and it's a wine town vineyard. And then Trish says Marlboro and she says, should we stop? And I really wasn't feeling it. So I said, no, I don't really want to go stop. It was like beautiful vineyard. It was like driving to Napa. Yes. And so then we, so we didn't stop then because it was so close to when we just left and then we wanted to kind of make some progress. And then about another 45 minutes down the road, we saw all these cars over the bridge and I was going to stop because there's so many cars. And then we passed the bridge and I couldn't turn around. And then we said, well, do you want to go back? No, we'll, we'll keep going cause I couldn't turn around. And found out that was a Lord of the Rings location is this big swimming hole. So big mistakes. So I'm going to write down our big mistakes in like the different blog we're sharing so that you don't, you, you know, but, but here's the real mistake. The real mistake is I lost sight of the fact that the best things about this type of travel is to stop and investigate and experience something that you had no concept of. That's the best part when you have everything listed out perfectly and you just go from that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, maybe it's better than you thought. Maybe it's not better than you thought, but there's not enough room for spontaneity. And so I'm still, I lost sight today of the bigger picture. So I'm reminding you and it's not just New Zealand, it's anything. It was right in the States or Canada or Mexico or anywhere you're traveling. Leave room for spontaneity. The funniest dog duo ever. Okay. One of them goes and catches the stick. The other one barks the entire time. He's like the cheerleader. He brings the stick back, gives it to the Barker, and then the Barker gives it to Caleb and then they rethrow it. Teamwork, teamwork, no work. The perfect time to get a dog is when, when we leave New Zealand and go home is we're just going to be touring around the entire United States and we'll be with the dog every day. So don't you think that's a plan to get a dog, a puppy, a puppy in a rig, in a rig through with full time traveling and two teenage boys around the States? Yes. It's the perfect time. It is a plan. It's not a good one. It's a perfect one. It's not just good. It's great. Not a hundred percent on that. Leave a comment below if you want to say, Oh, don't even, don't even. Season seven around the United States. But the most important part is let's get a dog. Morning. Well, hello there. I am just checking out where we're going. It's called Kai Tiri Tiri Recreation Reserve. It's like 30 minutes up the way. Looks fantastic. Today's Sunday. So I think all the crowds will be clearing just like this place. I mean, everybody was out of here or the other tip I was going to share with you is the same app I use to locate cell phone coverage in the States works fantastic out here. It's called open signal and I have the exact cell phone coverage per like location. It's like a little plotted plotted map type situation. So the app looks like this right here. And if you can see that, and it gives me green and red and like orange areas. So you can see the little dock that we're on maybe. And, uh, and so what we do is it was before we book up there, I can go up and I can see the exact location and I can get a sense for the signal. But anyway, open signal, check it out. Great app. Not an ad, not an affiliate. Roads. They're like not only windy, they're like lopsided. I love like being in San Francisco. Look at this beach. Well, I think this is as good as time as any to share with you how the dumping procedures work. We've got a, we thought we would empty because we dry camped last night before we pull into our site. Even though we can walk the cassette over, we just figured we'd stop. And then the RV provides a nice little privacy wall. Yeah. So you're not, you know, you don't need to do the walk of shame if you don't have to. All right. So I got these gloves that wilderness provided and I think they provided enough. We don't even have to buy anymore. So anyhow, the cassette is stored right here. Trisha, this is the cassette and it just comes, it comes right out and we've put chemicals in there. We've put chemicals in there so that it's not really that stinky and everything breaks down. And because it's so small and we use an entire tablet, it ends up like the water is like completely blue. So it's not even like, theoretically is not that disgusting. We have here is this little thing goes out here like this and you take this thing off like that and you pick it up like this. And I'm going to go like this just to give you a little bit of shield, shield you, shield you. And then I just, I just go like that and you just let it drain. I'll show you, I'll show you what to do when it's done, but it's, it's really not that gross. We need to play elevator music while that's going. And then, you know, because of the chemicals, it doesn't even smell, which is nice. And then once that's okay, once that's sufficiently drained, you take this out here like this and turn this knob and that opens it up and they provide at all dumping stations, they provide a little hose. You fill it up with water like so, and then you can swish that around and dump it out one more time. I guess this is the boys clothes hanger. Yes. Clothes line. What did they say? I've relocated them from the ground to their ladder. Trish, the ground is where we keep things. Yes, exactly. Okay. Exactly. But I know right where they are. That turned smelly and at least that will be ready for the next round of swimming. But they met friends. They did. So they're off. They're like doing things, which has been great for us today because it's super windy and all of our plans have gone. Well, the boat ride didn't look that great in the mountain biking because the wind, I mean, windy right now, it's not windy. The only reason it doesn't look good is because it's so windy. Yes. So maybe mountain biking will still, there's called the taste trail. Okay. It looks so cool. So it's 17 kilometers to the little town that we drove to with your kilometers, which is about 10 miles. Amazing. I had to look it up. But it was 17 kilometers, which is 10 miles. And then you go and you can taste and you can buy stuff from the orchards and all that stuff. So I say we release the video. It's done. Yeah. The pressure's off. The boys are gone. The boys are enjoying going to go out with a mountain bike ride with me then. I want to go out with you. Oh, that sounds good. And we'll go and get something to eat over there. Yeah. You want to leave a note with the boys? No, I told them, I said, do you want us to go look for you when we go on this ride? They were like, all right. So anyway, well, let's ditch them and go. Let's do it. So this is supposed to be the great taste trail and we can go and taste all kinds of stuff at different cafes. I think we're going to come across those orchards, maybe even a vineyard. Trish, if you're ever in doubt of where to go, just follow the signs of the wine glass and the fork and knife. Like every good ride. How's it going? This is fun. Is it? What would you like? I'll also have a kid's blueberry. I hope you can hear us in all this wind. We found what we were looking for or did we? Oh, I did. Here's a hot tip. First time you see this real fruit ice cream, you're going to be like, give me the biggest one they have, but you're going to eat it so many times. So you should switch over to the kid's size, save you a buck. So that you can continue to eat them wherever you find them. Yes. Guilt free. Yes. Amazing. They really are quite fantastic. And the chunks of ice cream, it's like real homemade ice cream. And then they like slice it and they put the cube inside the twister with the Oh, forget the brakes on the opposite side. I'm going to call that the ice cream ride and not the ice cream trail and not the, what was the supposed to be called? The taste trail? Yes. Because it's not like there was ample places to eat where you could go a few miles and stop somewhere and nibble on something. And well that trail is like 60 miles long. It goes from Nelson where we started yesterday all the way to here. Okay. So we did 16 miles. Yeah. Eight miles out and eight miles back. And if we would have added five more miles, we would have gotten to the really big town and then we would have had lots to, so we would have rode about two and a half more miles and then we would have had a lot more food options. Yes. But then we decided on the trail that if we sit down to a glass of wine and a nice dinner that we got to ride eight some miles back. I don't think I'm ready for that. So we decided to just be satisfied with the real fruit ice cream tour. So I think that was plenty. So we rode to this town right here and we had our real fruit ice cream and we rode back and this trail was magnificent and there were lots of different options or expert trails and intermediate trails and beginning trails. But it was my, I would say second most favorite bike mountain bike ride. It was amazing. It wasn't crazy technical and challenging, but it was just the way it could have been if you wanted. Remember cause they're hard trails. Yeah. Yeah. So it turns out that's what the boys have been doing all day. They've been going on those trails. Yes. So lots of fun. Now let's go out to dinner date night. Boys are still content. Good. Why don't we find another RV park with tons of teenagers? Let's just go. Let's just keep doing this. Just keep doing this. Look at that. Look at that rig, huh? Fancy. Isn't that awesome? This right here is amazing. It's called a lolly mix. And really it's just candy, but candy here is called lollies. You need to hunt these down and find them cause they are amazing. Well, and they're only a dollar at the register. Well I got the $2 mix cause I knew we were sharing. So anyway, but they're amazing. Candy is equals lollies. Lollies equals candy in case we haven't covered this. I think you've gotten them point though about this location. And that is that I've never seen so many teenagers in my life at an RV park. Yeah. Holiday park ever. And so if you have kids with teenagers, tween, tween, tweens and teen, teens, you can't not come here. Now it is the busiest. There's also little kids because there's no huge waves. Yes. It's like super kid friendly. So kids of any age, kids of any age, we're just, we just have teenagers hanging out here. So the fact that our kids are of the age where we can leave for most of the day and you don't look, think about it. How many countries, how many places on this planet would you feel comfortable letting our boys, just go off? Not very many. Not very many. Here's this guy. Where are you guys going? To give you a knuckle sandwich. All right, have fun. Okay, buddy. So pretty. Good morning. We've already gone, gotten a cup of coffee and now I'm making egg sandwiches. This classy is actually, it's working for me. I've already made some bacon. The bread here is fantastic. Fresh ciabatta. And I'm toasting it in here and I'm going to melt some cheese. I'm doing jammy eggs. Um, and then I'm going to do these ciabattas with some melted cheese, a jammy egg and a piece of bacon. Yum. I can vouch. It's unbelievable. It looks so good. Did you hear that announcement? The announcement was hilarious. I feel like I'm at summer camp. Okay. But I don't know what he said. I went out there to go listen. Oh, here's what he said. Good morning campers. There's a five-year-old named Joseph up here at the office and if he's yours, please come collect. I love it. You know, that used to happen at the grocery store all the time. Remember that? You know, they say, well, yeah, can we get lost? It doesn't happen anymore, does it? No. Cause you've got them like buckled in and strapped down. Yeah, that or they have a phone and they just text their mom. Mom, where are you? I'm in aisle seven. They wouldn't know to look up for the aisle number. They'd be like, there's oranges around me. We fixed our electrical issue. For some reason it stopped receiving a charge from the panel and I was over there kind of fussing with it and the gentleman came up and he says, I'm a sparky. What's going on? And so anyway, that kind of prompted a whole diagnostic, not a diagnostic, but a little bit where we come in here and we started looking through the rig and looking for the panel. Sure enough, the panel was popped. So we turn it back on. We're back in business. Easy peasy. Easy peasy. And then the hose, I couldn't quite reach the hose from here. And so I was talking to Simon, our neighbor, and he says, well, I got a hose. You want a hose? So he came over and gave me a hose. And then another gentleman came over and he says, where are you all visiting from? Yeah. So anyway, and he was telling us some good places to go and to go see whale watching. And yeah, so checkouts at 10, but unless someone needs the site, it's, we've noticed it's pretty low key and so it's not much of a problem, but it's hard to get out of these parks with all the conversations you have with locals. So anyway, Simon next door said we should go to pain. Like pain. So you want to head to pain and then go to Takaka to go to the spring. I think we might forget the waterfalls do the pain swimming hole, then do the poo poo Springs and then start driving South and starting to make some, make some progress. Yeah. We got to get down to Queenstown. We got to hit the West coast. We got to hit maybe the glaciers going to Milford sound. There's still a lot to do. We have a lot to do. Thank you. Little road coffee. Yes. A little road brew. Yeah. Ford pains Ford. Simon recommended this on our way out. He was our neighbor. He said, as you're going up to poo poo Springs, stop by full pains Ford. You'll see it when you cross the bridge, there'll be cars and a bunch of people park. There's a swimming hole. Bring a towel. I didn't know where I was going to land. Right. There's all the vegetation blocking it when I was coming down. So Trish ended up going back. She wasn't overly interested in this. So she went back to go reply to emails. She says she hardly ever has an opportunity to do that because when she's in the rig, she's always busy making things, answering questions. So she's going to go take some alone time in the rig, reply to emails. I don't blame her. It sounds like a good plan. How's it going? Great. Was it fun? Yeah, it was fun. Actually. It's refreshing. I put my feet in. Yeah. What did you get done while we were gone? I did some planning so that we know what to do, like in Christchurch and Queenstown and tomorrow. And I was talking to some people down there and they said that we really missed Abel Tasman. It's really something to see. That's why most people come to high territory. Well, I think it's because we don't want to spend $500 to go get in the boat and go up. But they said that you can, they said you can drive down and maybe take the boat to Anchorage. Yeah. And then go from there. And they said, if you're fit, you can just walk the half hour each way. But they said the beaches over there are magical and that's why most people come to Kai Territory. So I think that might be something while we're in the area we work that's worth looking into. Okay. But we can review our plan. What's for lunch? Well, I have some extra bread and I have some extra meat, so I'm making little mini burgers, little sliders. Yeah. Do we have any idea where we're staying tonight? Do you want to go take a gander at the freedom sites tonight? Well, I don't have any. Well, it's three 13. By the time we do the springs, it might be, we might have a hard time finding somewhere. Let's go do the spring.