July - August 2020

RV Travel Lifestyle

Motorhome journeys that inspire you to explore New Zealand

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RV Travel Lifestyle
EDITOR Robyn Dallimore, editor@rvmagazine.co.nz ADVERTISING MANAGER Bruce Mountain Auckland Office 09 238 2261 021 657 090, bruce@rvmagazine.co.nz Bruce Mountain uses Lumix photographic equipment COVER SHOTS Sandra Wilde Aurora’s from Stewart Island
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Be Calm, Breathe And Carry On
This is our first post-Covid-19-lockdown edition for this title. Thank you to our subscribers especially and our readers generally for your patience and understanding during this period where we had to suspend printing the Vol 5 edition until this ti
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Land Of Glowing Skies
Crossing Foveaux Strait for the first time can be intimidating. The stretch of water between Bluff (at the bottom of the South Island) and Stewart Island/Rakiura has a reputation of providing one of the wildest ferry rides in New Zealand. As the ocea
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Reflecting On Lockdown, Baking, Bears And First Trips Away
Mid-March saw the RV industry hustling and bustling getting ready for the Covi Motorhome Caravan and Outdoor Show in Auckland March 13–15, just as the Covid-19 pandemic was building pace around the world. It was touch and go if the show would go ahea
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Ticket To Ride
I peer out the plane’s oval window, across snow-covered mountains to the shimmering Tasman Sea in the west and down into remote valleys looking for good lines to ski. We fly over Lake Wakatipu and circle around the craggy cliffs of The Remarkables –
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Queenstown A Winter Playground
The brown Otago landscape is a welcome sight after the drenched green fields of Taranaki. The deep blue water of Lake Wakatipu is surrounded by mountains sweeping skyward, their rugged peaks draped with snow. The mountain air is brisk – my senses see
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The Rough Diamond
Take a look on Trip Advisor, and you will read that Diamond Harbour is described as “a gem awaiting a shake-up”. And I get what the critics are talking about. On arrival in this approximately 2000-inhabitant village on the other side of the Port Hill
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Where Gumboots Are Man’s Best Friend
I have been to some wondrous places in my years on this planet – safari in South Africa, the best hotel on the Grand Canal in Venice, camping in the Aussie outback dining on camel, croc’ and emu, a month last year tearing around Europe, Tangiers, Pat
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The Goldilocks Waters
Just like Goldilocks testing beds to find her preferred softness, my feet found their soothing ‘just right’ warm waters beside the Taupō Trails. Fortunately reaching this natural hot spring along the cycle trail did not involve encountering three bea
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RV Centre Times
With international tourist numbers predicted to be low for the foreseeable future, and a pricing re-alignment happening in the adventure tourism sector there has never been a better time to get out and see our own backyard. We think our range of Roya
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A New Frontier On The Plains
Bilbo Baggins is not the only one to take an unexpected journey from The Shire. I too am in Middle-earth in search of an adventure – in the form of a nearly completed section of the Hauraki Rail Trail. The trail is freshly laid and passes close to se
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BE IN TO WIN Lion Portable Fridge/Freezer 40L
• Battery powered (10-12 hours)• Portable design with telescopic handle, wheels and removable lid• USB output for charging phones• Replaceable Lithium Ion battery• Charge with 12/24V, 240V or solar panel• LCD display plus remote control via App• 509(
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Classics at Ōhope
‘Classics at Ōhope’ caravan and car show was lining up for its fifth outing. The first had been pretty small, but the second was a bit larger and many of the retro-caravan crowd who attended really enjoyed the show. The event sounded as if it would b
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Lockdown - The View From Our Motorhome
Here we meet Sharon and Wayne George, a couple who have been living full time on the road in their bus since quitting the rat race in 2018 to live the RV Lifestyle dream. They have worked around the country doing everything from seasonal fruit pickin
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On The Road Again
I got woken from a deep, deep sleep over the night of June 8/9 by what I thought was a series of shotgun blasts right outside my bedroom window. Boomed wide awake I realised the bedroom was filled with bright light with each blast. What was going on
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On To Bigger And Better
We loved the Tracker FB, and it was a terrific introduction to life on the road. The Tracker is an English-built two-berth that is just over 7m long with a combined toilet/bathroom, and a really comfortable lounge area. As well as the stylish design
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Wheels-on-the-road Dream Comes True
Motorhome shows are just the place to light a fire in the belly; they inspire many to take part in the RV lifestyle. For some that might mean acquiring a Mooloo 30-second tent in order to kick-start their outdoor adventures, perhaps a classic caravan
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Storing Your RV
Firmly shut the cylinder valve, and check the outlet of the cylinder with some soapy water to make sure it is gas-tight. Having removed the LPG regulator from the cylinder valve, put the regulator inside a plastic bag, securing the bag with a rubber
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Smart, Sexy and Spacious
The Jayco-brand caravan is well known in New Zealand. The company has been producing caravans and motorhomes for nearly 45 years now, so there have been models arriving here from over the ditch for quite a long time. Every year at the Covi Motorhome
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Compact Campervan Surprises
We may have been in lockdown for weeks, but ships kept arriving and new RV stock rolled off regularly. One of the latest models to arrive at Nationwide RV in Drury is this long-wheel based two-berth campervan, fully fitted for self-containment offeri
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Road Kai
Recipes extracted from Grow Younger with Great Food By Dr Catherine Stone and Jessica Giljam-Brown RRP: $39.95 Photography by Melanie Jenkin, Flash Studios. We have one copy of Grow Younger with Great Food by Dr Catherine Stone and Jessica Giljam-Bro
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RV Road Books
Kirsty Powell RRP $29.95 Cloud Ink Press Ltd The Strength of Eggshells explores the lives of strong rural New Zealanders, set against the fragile isolation of a farm upbringing, two world wars and a landscape that is inevitably slipping beyond reach.
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Market Place
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Lockdown, Walkies And Road Trips
Woof woof ruff arf yip yip woof woof grrrr, bow wow bow wow ruff ruff arf arf. Pass that on to your pets please, a little note from me to them. What a great time we have had lately – we got to stay home for weeks and weeks, I got big walkies every da

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