I'M GLOBAL ROAMING AGAIN!

It's been an eventful few months since my last post and much has been achieved. We bought a lovely 4-bedroom house with a 2 bedroom cottage in Ohakune and spent all of March and April fitting it out for renting. We had to work pretty much from scratch after selling off all our old furniture when we sold the Auckland house, and we combed the lower North Island for bargains both new and used. We scored an elegant 10-seater dining table and chairs from Wellington, a brand-new lounge suite from Taupo, whiteware from Palmerston North, and ran riot in K-Mart finding colourful designer items to pull the look together.  You can see the results in our Bachcare listings here.  bachcare.co.nz/4631  Both house and cottage are available throughout the year, separately or together. The ski season is about to kick off on June 3rd so bookings are filling up fast. ​

It felt strange to leave everything behind in Bachcare's capable hands and drive ourselves to Auckland this week, and it was another flurry of activity to get the motorhome ready for renting out through Mighway, but we got it all done in time. We were broken shells of people and on our knees by the end, but kind friends took care of us and got us to the airport on Sunday. (Here's the motorhome listing -  https://app.mighway.com/listings/PSMnbf97yQZMvznWW  It was a much better option than paying to store it, and we'll have it available to live in when we return in October.)

So now we're relaxing in Canada, waiting another 2 weeks to get our boat back in the water and continue the journey along the Trent-Severn waterway when it reopens after the spring meltwaters go down. Right now stretches of river that were calm and mirror-smooth last summer are foam-capped, raging torrents! We're happy to wait until conditions are a little less challenging.

Although when have we ever done anything that wasn't challenging! Watch this space...
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