New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Home is a house bus ‘THE COUNTRY IS OUR BACKYARD’

When single mum Shoshannah Shand packed her baby son into the car for a South Island adventure two years ago, she was craving freedom after New Zealand’s first lockdown.

With bags containing reusable nappies and the essentials to keep young Timmy dry and warm, the natural-born explorer followed the road, stopping regularly to climb mountains and camp by beaches.

Today, she and Timmy, three, live and travel the country in a house

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