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New Zealand: The Mt Holdsworth – Jumbo Circuit

October 17, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

I wake up in a bed bigger than my van. I open the curtains to find the city of Wellington has disappeared. The harbour obliterated by cloud. The nearest hills […]

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New Zealand: Alpha Hut

October 10, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

My van life adventure began in the Hutt Valley, at Kaitoke Regional Park. Dark and cold in the late afternoon. I find myself not far away with overnight temperatures threatening […]

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New Zealand: Otaki Forks

October 3, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

Drizzle beats a now well known tune on the roof of the van. Getting up in the rain is much easier when someone is paying for you to do it. […]

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New Zealand: Sunrise Hut

September 26, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

Four months is the longest I’ve spent anywhere, with anyone, since I arrived in New Zealand. My planting crew mates supported me in the beginning, pushed me through the middle […]

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New Zealand: Rukumoana

September 19, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

After weeks of being told “after this we’ll be on the windrows,” we finally arrive in the promised land. Flat ground. The slash of branches, cones, and needles has been […]

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New Zealand: Ohurakura

August 22, 2021by Christoph_Orr 1 Comment

With deepest winter blasting North from Antarctica. The clouds over the hills look like snow. Heavy like blankets with that odd, internal glow. I watch the distant peaks disappear as […]

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New Zealand: Westshore

August 15, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

After work I fall out of the van across the road from the Westshore Holiday Park. I cross the road and walk back past the row of caravans on the […]

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New Zealand: Willowflat

July 18, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

The days blur into one. This is what happens when every day is the same. Time slips by, collapses in on itself. A week, a month, half the season gone. […]

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New Zealand: Mohaka

July 11, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

I stand alone in the dark. Cars, pick-ups, other vans drive beyond the drop kerb. Cars come out of the holiday park. Still I wait. I check the time on […]

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New Zealand: The Pine Plantation

June 9, 2021by Christoph_Orr Leave a comment

I stand by the side of the road in the steadily falling rain watching cars, pick up truck and vans drive by. I have no idea what Anial looks like. […]

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