Here there and everywhere

It has been a long and eventful day. Waking this morning to -2degrees with a very heavy frost on the ground, and ice over the windscreen, meant that movement was rapid. I had woken at 2.30am and turned the heating on then. While it was warmish in the van, it certainly was not tropical! The offside to this though was that it was the most beautiful day you could ever imagine ❤️. The sky was a deep blue, and there was not a cloud to be seen 😊.
The plan originally had been to do our dumping in Turangi before leaving, but that changed quickly when I realized how cold it was outside 😳. But never mind, we could do it in Taupo. It was 'interesting' driving 🚗 conditions driving north directly into the rising sun.
Once in Taupo we filled with diesel (sadly not a Gull discount day) and then headed to the dump site at the BP station just out of Taupo heading north. I will not begin to describe the state of the dump site but the emoji says it all 💩💩💩💩💩. So no dumping done there! We did get a pie 🥧 and coffee ☕️ from the BP station which were also subpar. Avoid this site for anything unless desperate!
Third choice dumping site was the NZMCA location at Ngongataha. At last we had success 🙌 😊. Moving on from there we went home to off load our bikes, get mail, get a circuit breaker so that hopefully we can plug into power at Megan's. Also, we were thrilled to meet up with Kelly, Mark and the two little ones as we had gifts for them.
Where too next...off to the Mount to the RV Supercentre to purchase a new toilet cassette $360 after having paid about $250 to get the old one repaired. Hopefully this will overcome our issues.
Then, we headed off to Morrinsville for the night because we are still on holiday and are heading north again to see Megan etc. because we don't know when the next opportunity will be available.
So, we have done a lot of ks over the past couple of days but at least we are going places 🤣.
We had a real blessing going over the Kaimai's this afternoon. We only saw one truck 🚚 and that was going the opposite way. That does not happen ever these days.
No pics, just imagine the Taupo dump station 😳.Leggi altro