Lucky Camping in New Zealand

While in New Zealand, we rented a campervan, the Lucky Cruiza.

What an awesome and amazing way to see the country. We drove about 1,400 miles in that thing, averaging around 30 miles to the gallon. We freedom camped (pulling over wherever we wanted). Tip for all you New Zealand bound campers: rent the porta-potty. This gives you "self-contained" status. Well worth having it along and opening up all these scenic, secluded opportunities to camp.

We also stayed in established campgrounds from time to time. These were great, and not like KOAs in the U.S. They were complete with showers, grills and laundry facilities. Of course, all in scenic places.

The scenery was fantastic. The weather was perfect: 65-70 degrees, sunny, clear, dry -- very different than Kodiak weather.

We were able to cook our meals, which is a significant savings. Eating out in New Zealand is very, very expensive. Although, they did have a great deal of gluten free options wherever we went.

Most of our meals were stag burgers or wild pork, all shot by Robin when we were hunting. We found a butcher along the way in a little town, who ground the stag into burger for us. It was awesome!

See some camping photos.