• Trip 2.. once dead is Now Back To Life

    December 20, 2022 in New Zealand ⋅ 🌧 19 °C

    Trip 2 has been a hard one to get going. What with Christine's illness which we believe is due to the new medication the Rotorua Hospital have recently put her on, and then on the morning we were due to leave, the car battery was dead... stone cold "dead!" Fortunately our dear friend Terry came forth with a battery starter thingie that worked a treat. He even allowed me to take it with us until I could get the car "sorted."
    After two further car start failures I took her into a Tauranga Auto Electrician this morning whom diagnosed that the battery was "stone cold dead. " (see, I told you so!) After a short service we buried it and soon replaced it with a newer model with a ton of energy! .. yippee!!
    While in Tauranga I sorted the personal plates out for Waymaker and was soon back at the NZMCA camp at Welcome Bay. Just in time to watch the rabbits playing outside our motorhome.
    Let the pilgrimage commence.....
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