Moo and Moochelle

Putangirua Pinnacles & Cape Palliser Lighthouse, WELLINGTON

Cape Palliser is the most southern point of New Zealand’s North Island. It’s a decent 2 hour drive from Wellington, so you need at least a full day to make the most of the area. We left Wellington after a quick coffee and breakfast, road tripped to the cape, did a few short day hikes […]

Waitahinga Dam, WHANGANUI

This is one of the best day hikes we’ve done since moving to Whanganui. The great thing about it is that you can do the full hike down to the dam and back, or a shorter walk around the other trails. With a canopy of Native New Zealand forest (some original tawa and rimu trees, […]

Learning to snowboard-WHAKAPAPA

Hi. I’ve wanted to learn how to snowboard for as long as I can remember. When I was a young teenager we would go on skiing trips as a family up Mt Ruapehu. Snowboarding was always off limits as my dad is a purist and loyal to the ski life. He would refer to the […]

Tonga, PACIFIC ISLANDS

6 reasons you NEED to put Tonga on your Bucket List The year long international travel ban is officially over!!!! and its back to spending all the $$ and all the leave on plane tickets and ticking countries/places off the bucket list. First up, Tonga!! (Not that Tonga was on my list before-but […]

Packrafting Utiku to Mangaweka, RANGITIKEI RIVER

I’m not really sure how to tell this story. Partly because it was one of the best days of my life-but at the same time also one of the worst. Does that even make sense??? Mike and I brought our Alpacka Packrafts about a year in to our marriage, so 2 years ago. Mikey had […]

Tawhai Falls, TONGARIRO NATIONAL PARK

This year (2018) I set the goal for myself to learn how to snowboard in the winter, and learn how to surf in the summer. In the summer time of 2017/18 I had my second ever surfing lesson (my first being at age 15 ) while on Christmas holiday in and around Cape Town, South […]

ROTORUA

We are currently in month 4 of our self-imposed (ok, and bank-account-imposed) overseas travel ban. If you’ve seen the rest of our blog, you will start to understand why. We’ve been married for 2 years, and have visited 6 countries (Australia x 2, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, England, France and South Africa). In 2017 we went […]

London, (and Paris) ENGLAND

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. -Charles Darwin Yeah. We went to London. In March 2017. I know, I know. It’s now almost a year later. But hey, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do with this blog just yet. Find my top tips at the bottom […]

Hermanus + Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA

“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” -Nelson Mandela Firstly, I should start with a little context since South Africa isn’t usually very high up on the kiwi to-visit bucket list. Mikey moo was born in a […]

Vanuatu + New Caledonia, PACIFIC ISLANDS

This post is coming a bit after the fact, but since I wanted our blog to document our adventures and travel together I definitely wanted our first trip as Mr. & Mrs. Beck to be stamped into cyberspace. Itinerary overview: Brisbane (Australia), Champagne Bay (Vanuatu), Port Villa (Vanuatu), Nouméa (New Caledonia), Lifou, Loyalty Islands (New […]