Category: Adventures
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Project Troopy Update
Project Troopy delayed start this morning with the Boss testing out the bed! Bed, bed wall mounting, air compressor and hinge sidewall panel almost finished ✅Time to start on fridge/freezer, Toilet pivot mount and sink/cupboard assembly.
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So What Is Canicross?
Here you go, I’m lucky to have trained Mr Z 🐕🦺 to know his Left and Right months ago and now working on slowing and Mr Z Back (behind me) for steep technical downhills.It’s so much fun and my ankle injury is finally settling down after six months. 🐾❤️
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Bristol Lodekka
One of the best driving buses I’ve ever driven and I’ve got to drive many other sorts including some preproduction vehicles when driving for a different European tour company.Love the crash gearboxes that TD had in them, the hum of a Gardner engine flat out at 80 kph (on a good day)were far better than…
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Keep New Zealand Clean
Please be a responsible Kiwi when away from home Most people don’t know how to look after our environment in New Zealand. It was extremely short video explaining how to be responsible away from home.
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To Fail Is Part Of Life
Is life not about taking an adventure and the possibility of failure? I have lived my life with a passion and a calculated risk of failure but if there’s no risk of failure is there a point in doing it in the first place?A number of people have told me I do high risk activities?White…
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Life ❤️
Well I have done this all numerous times over the years.So I can’t complain about my Brain Injury!That’s life
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The Start Of My Life Of Adventure
Back in the 1980’s and 1990’s we had true adventures.I travelled with Top deck Travel in 1987 as a passenger.It made such an impression on me that I applied to be a tour manager for the 1988 season which I was unsuccessful.But they asked so many questions about my life racing sportscars and motocross (tail…
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New “XPLR” Here
Hi so my new Explore (adventure) vehicle is in my hands and I have already clocked up over 200 kilometres in the first two days of ownership. I also have already had a nap in the back. She’s gonna work out perfectly for the two of us. Adventures are coming.
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Ready To Explore
Well Mr Z (my dog) and I are ready to Explore the back roads of New Zealand. At long last I have a vehicle that I feel at home in. I have missed windup windows, and the simple things in life.
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Update On The Ultra Micro Overlander & More
So a few weeks ago I sold my Suzuki Jimny back to my local Suzuki Dealership after finishing her off. Why? Well when I started the project it was for just myself and I had not planned to share my life with someone else. I also had no need for a refrigerator (years of experience…
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Ultra Micro Overlander Update
Well my sleeping/storage system is complete aside from some finishing touches/paint. No drawers because of the size and to keep the weight down. Front section of the bed is removed in only a minute and stored behind the front seats and this in closes the rear storage space (so it’s got a dual roll). Drivers…
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New Alu-Cab Jimny Build Options Coming
Alu-Cab are coming out with some new accessories for ourselves who enjoy the outdoors I’m looking forward to seeing more details
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Live Life Now And Not Later
Take the opportunity when you can, And live life to the max before it’s too late! I’m so glad to have travelled overseas extensively years ago, not of waited until I was older in life to do so. There’s nothing stopping you sell things and just do it. It’s called having an adventure.
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Life Without Spare Wheels
Live life to the fullest possible! So why not try reducing your wheels on your vehicles?
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My Old Titanium Geared Mountain Unicycle
Myself 2011, with old custom made 26” Titanium Geared Mountain Unicycle. Sold in late 2011 too help fund my 2012 Africa Misadventure. I would love to be able to go out again and enjoy a good 20+ kilometre Uni ride, but I’ll be happy to manage 10 minutes of riding before having to take a…
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Freedom
The freedom of riding on just one tyre is hard to give up and a load easier than it may look. I had to stop riding my mountain unicycle after my 2017 bicycle accident because it was too much of a brain overload and extremely frustrating. But now after 6 years and a load of…
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Overlanding With Your Dog
Here is a video that I have come across with a number of different ideas that have me thinking about my Dogs things and setup.
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JUE Story
This very first Land Rover Number One was known as JUE and this is the finding and it’s restoring to keep its original history. An awesome story behind the very first true four-wheel-drive outside of the army built jeeps one designed for everyone to use every day. The doors are opened.. I must watch. Note:…
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Live Life To The Fullest When You Can
In July 2017 (before my Brain Injury) I used to go out and enjoying Mountain Unicycling. On this day I was riding part of the Great Lakes Mountain Bike Trail. I do miss being able to ride and enjoy the simplest form of cycling ⛰️
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A Sunny Day Out In Middle Of Winter
A day out in XPLR and a short walk/jog with Zippy along part of the Great Lakes Trail on a beautiful sunny afternoon today over looking Lake Taupo.
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The Pie’s 🥧 Of New Zealand
One of the best things about Touring in New Zealand is the World’s best Pie’s and the Hunt for them
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A Shocking Experience
This week’s adventure with Zippy was a short 4+ kilometre walk. It also was his first time to see Sheep in paddock’s Here Zippy’s sitting/standing watching the Sheep eating away at the grass Unfortunately Zippy also touched a live electric fence! despite explaining to him, not to touch it! He jumped about two metres, cried…
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The Perfect Bicycle Stand
Are you still looking for the perfect bicycle stand?The best one is just around the corner!
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Overlanding Morocco
I loved my time in Morocco and North Africa back in 1993. It’s the one place that I have always wanted to return too. This video is inspiring 👍
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True NZ Adventure Video
Are you looking for some inspiration and/or ideas of places to go and see in the South Island ? Here is a awesome and raw video about two guys having fun and adventure. I’m planning to drive my Jimny in the next year along some of the same routes (if you’re in the USA it’s…
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Inspiring Videos of Some of New Zealand Offroad Roots
This is just one of the future planned adventures I have for myself and my ultra micro overland adventure Jimny. Marcus has videoed some of the great roots/tracks of the South Island.Like the one below.
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Overloaded Camping Adventure’s In NZ
So below is myself riding in a self supported cycling event called the Kiwi Brevet. I was riding the short course a 750 kilometre long loop of the upper part of the South Island in 2015. I learned about trying to ride with too much camping gear and this photo is of myself with my…
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Paradise Is New Zealand
I’m so lucky to live in Paradise and having traveled the world over the last four decades I have come to the conclusion that New Zealand is the best country to live in. Love Taupo (North Island of NZ) but one day I may look to move to Central Otago (in the South Island of…
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Ultra Micro Overland/Camper
Out for a walk with Zippy this last weekend.Looking forward to finishing off my Ultra Micro Overland/Camper.No rooftop tent ⛺️ going on here!After after all we have no Lions or Hippos in New Zealand to keep safe from.So like in my last two Jimny’s it’s a simple sleep inside with a full size bed.Adventures are…
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Large Self Loading Stock Truck (Bus)
I once drove an almost identical Vanhool Double Decker powered by a marine spec Mercedes turbocharged V8 engine.It flew when empty and was still a rocket when loaded with 85 passengers!Had many adventures in the 12+ months I worked for “Tracks UK/Europe”Had to sign a secrecy agreement with a government organisation on a few occasions,…
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A Fence Post With History
Close to Taupo is Opepe, it’s one of a number of ghost towns in the Taupo district. I can remember one building was still standing when I moved to Taupo years ago, unfortunately it is now a pile of rubble. History is returning to the Earth. Walking Adventures in NZ.
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Why Have I Have Changed In My Websites Name From Kiwi Pete’s Adventures?
So why have I renamed Kiwi Pete’s Adventures and moved all three of my websites into one? First of the rename is after a second person contacted me asking if I was the Kiwi Pete who had left them on the side the road in the middle of the USA? or I was the Kiwi…
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Ultra Micro Overlander/Camper Build Update
So if anyone was following my design and setup that I started in March 2022. I’m sorry, I got to this stage above and stopped because of my Brain injury causing me extreme fatigue! Then changing my medication, cause more extreme fatigue, once this is under control, the medication stop being available and then it’s…
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My Suzuki Jimny Story
Well back as a kid in 1972 I first saw a Suzuki LJ10 or may have been a LJ20 in Wellsford (Northland) and if I had been older I would of liked one for myself, but at 8 years old I was too young! Anyway in 1998 I got my 1st new Suzuki Samurai (Jimny),…
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My First Suzuki 4×4
So after working overseas driving Double Decker Buses, Tour Buses and Overland Adventure Trucks I returned home to NZ and started building up a Fraser Sports Car ( NZ made Lotus 7 copy) I realised that I missed driving on Gravel Roads about Northland and a sports car was not the ideal vehicle to have.…
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Welcome to Jimny New Zealand
So welcome to Jimny New Zealand, My background is from driving offroad on our family farm up north mixed with riding dirt bikes all over the place. On my two O.E. ‘s I drove about the UK in a rough looking air-cooled VW kombi van, exploring the greenlanes of England. On my 2nd O.E. I…
