A Boat Yard in New England...

Mother Nature and I headed to Plymouth Mass to hang on the water for a few months at the beginning of the summer. 

Working back at Surf Marine with the friends. Planning to make a bunch of mods in preparation for a great summer. Had some squirrel friends coming on the bus quite a bit while we were at the boat yard.

Boat Yard Bus Tattoo..

Mother Nature

Andrea came up to spend some time in New England. Bus life at a boat yard for the beginning of this summer. So nice to come home to the bus and just lay in my bed. So stoked to have this bus and be able to share that with The Mother Nature 

Bus Needs some paint.....

Goodbye New Zealand

    Our last night in New Zealand was overwhelming with so many different emotions. Thankful for all of the amazing things that we were able to see and experience, but most of all thankful for all of the people that we were able to spend time with. We met so many great people that took care of us and looked out for us the entire time we were down there, so eager to share their lives with us.
   A bunch of our friends from Queenstown flew to Auckland on our last day. We just spent the night sitting around, sharing stories, laughing, getting tattoos, whatever. The perfect way to set off on our next journey....

 
Beak Business..

Pasta La Vista New Zealand. Thank you for lifting my eye lllids.

Our last day in NZ was spent in the presence of our brother from another....galaxy, Arie. He illegally drove to The WAZ compound in a crap box mini car with his bike and gigantic radio. Stuffed Me and Bubba in there with our bikes(don't know how it all fit with that radio) and brought us to a full pipe.
   We taped flashlights to our heads, pointed the radio into the tube, and started carving.

Your legs gave up before the pipe did. and you could hear the tunes forever. Love riding this stuff.

Thoughts of Nick Ferreira..

Ode to Stella

Stella was just flawless our whole trip; No problems other than a bad radio.  When we got back to Auckland for our last few days in NZ. I had run out of money. Out out. Bubba fronted me a few bucks until we could sell the car.  We took Stella back to the auction where we bought it and tried to sell it. we had no luck and with only 2 days left, it was getting tight. Ended up selling it to a kid from Massachusetts on Craigslist for $1000 bucks. An awesome deal for everyone and Stella rages on. 

Our friend Cameron said that he saw Stella driving down the street in Queenstown a month or so after we left. He chased them down and was like "where did you get this car". Funny to think we were down there in it, the people before us were down there with it, and the people after us will be down there with it. Rock on Stella.

The New Zealand Bush Hike Experience

 When we got asked to go on a Bush hike " New Zealand style" on one of our last few days in the southern hemisphere, we knew to expect a good adventure. Turned out to be one of the most memorable hikes I've ever done.

We parked our cars at a beach, jumped in the back of a pick up truck, drove to the top of this big hill,  hiked into the woods for a half hour or so until we came to a river crossing.. Took a right and started off down the river.

   After a few minutes of walking down the knee deep river, we got to our first waterfall. Jump off, swim 20 feet and you're looking down your next one.

took us over 6 hours to walk down that river....there were some really sketchy sections with water falls you couldn't jump off.. everyone helped each other out the whole time

 and some really high falls. we stopped on the top of one water fall and had some lunch for a bit.

Thank you for this awesome memory.

Skateparks in New Zealand

Thank you New Zealand for all of the skateparks you blessed our trip with. We rode some of the weirdest, prettiest, smallest, most unique, empty, packed, sketchiest... skateparks we've been fortunate enough to pump around.

Bar-B-Que Mastah George

Made it back to Auckland. Cool to spend a few weeks there when we first arrived in NZ, then hit the road for a few months, and then end the trip back in Auckland for our final week. All the dudes welcomed us back with a bar b que of grand proportions.

Felt good to be back and blink for a second. We went out to the trails, I cased the second jump and took a bad slam. I felt Bubbas pain, seeing him spend almost this whole trip with his body all bruised up; now it was my turn to take a few days of minimal movement. 

Caleb Table

Bubba relaxing in an empty bowl

Auckland
Rules.

Slow cruise back to Auckland Raglan 2

After leaving New Plymouth, We started driving up the coast to try and hit up a few more surf spots along the way. Ended up in Raglan again, but for a few days this time around. Bubba with a really nice tent for the night. Stella in the background. I slept in the tree behind her.
 
  Had a good old time in that town. Ate fruit and pies, I paddled out in the biggest waves i have ever been out in.. didn't catch any or plan on trying to, just felt great to feel all the energy behind ocean.

Finally rode the Alligator we found in the bushes in Nelson.

Mt. Taranaki

Mt. Taranaki was awesome. We slept at a beautiful spot in the town at the bottom of the Mountain, Drove to the bottom of the mountain in the morning and started the walk to the top. The first half of the hike was a breeze... on an access road to a hut. Then it started to get a bit more challenging...

Clouds started rolling in, and as we got higher, the visibility got awful. If there were a visible trail to follow it would have been no sweat, but because the ground was all Scree (loose small rocks), the only way to tell if you are going the right way up is the sticks they put sticking out of the ground every 50 feet or so. We started to get a little cautious and wondering if we should continue on, when we walked up on 2 guys sitting on some rocks doing the same thing.
  Bubba was ready for the turn around. He could see the danger in trying to continue on a blind path of slippery marble rocks in clouds with maybe 10 feet of visibility. I was nervous but wanted to keep going. When we got to the other dudes, one of them was trying to convince the other to turn around and head down. It worked out perfectly, Bubba and the one guy took the walk back down to the hut and myself and the other guy kept on our way up.
  It turned out to be a really fun, really dangerous hike up to the top. And although the clouds never cleared enough for us to see all the way down to the ground from the top, It did clear up enough for us to be in clear skies above the clouds for a few minutes. A serious Rock and Roll mission of bad assery.