John Parsons, Te Wetini and the Battle of Māhoetahi

Here in Taranaki I’ve been following the lives of my ancestors. I’ve traced their journey to New Plymouth aboard the...

The Stormy Shore of New Plymouth

We had finally made it, Auntie and I, to the place where our forebears had first become Kiwis. Here we...

For the last eight years I’ve thought that the one moment in our nation’s history that I’d be asked about...

I don’t see myself as a particularly skilled photographer, and my cell phone camera is pretty finicky, but every so...

I’d been back in Dunedin a week or two before I proposed an adventure with my good friend KL from...

This month, the Kiwi Adventures blog celebrates its one year anniversary! What started as a project to help me get...