About

Here you are at the site of our New Zealand blog. Welcome. If you are reading this, that means you have encouraged us to set out on this adventure, supported us when we talked about it, or otherwise shown the slightest interest in the trip we are about to take. For that we’d like to say, thank you!

Now that you’re here, you might have some questions, which I will try to address below.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Great question. We are taking 6 months off of work, flying down to New Zealand, and walking a through-hike route known as the Te Araroa (TA). This route traverses 3000 km along the length of both main islands of New Zealand. We will start towards the end of October and aim to finish in 4-6 months.

WHY IS THIS BLOG CALLED THE WOOLLY WANDERERS?

Woolly - because we love wool. Seriously, we are both big knitters, for reference, please check out my page on Ravelry. Also, New Zealand is known to have a lot of sheep. Since we will be walking several thousand kilometers in New Zealand, we imagine we may encounter a fair few of our woolen friends.

Wanderers - although the TA is a defined route, we are not expecting to complete every footfall. We are setting out to walk the TA but our real goal is wandering along the route to see where it will take us. (Also, alliteration.)

WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?

This is the toughest question to answer. There are a few reasons: we want a break from work, we want a challenge, we love hiking and being outdoors, we want to enter a new day-to-day that is completely different from the plush comfort of our regular lives, we want to meet interesting people, and we really want to write a blog together and this was the only way we could think of that would give us anything interesting to write about. But as we go along the route I have a feeling we will figure out some new reasons as well.

If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask in the comments!