1 January 2026 Steps: 9,594 Happy New Year! 🎉 Watching 2026 arrive was definitely a very different experience this year , as we stood under the stars in shorts and T shirts... a far cry from welcoming the New Year back home in Canada surrounded by snow and ice! It’s been a wonderful way to end 2025 and our world travels, and we’re excited to see what 2026 brings when we get back to Canada. Te Mata Peak After our fairly slow morning (we got to bed quite late with it being New

31 December 2025 Steps: 5,528 Today we left Wellington and headed to Napier for a two night stay at a farmhouse located on the Mission Estate Winery. We didn’t make too many stops along the way, but we did pass through the Rumariku crossing and we stopped in a town called Greytown for lunch. The Mission Estate Winery In the early afternoon we arrived at the farmhouse we were staying at, set within the grounds of the Mission Estate Vineyard. It was a beautiful house right be