About us | Barbara and Paul

Not all those who wander are lost – J.R.R. Tolkein

We are Barbara (retired college science technician) and Paul (retired architect).

We live on the Kapiti Coast on the North Island of New Zealand.

We are work free, child free and debt free.

Things we love:

Barbara – running, swimming, quilting, walking, cycling, the beach, coffee shops, doing things with our three children and their partners.

Paul – sea kayaking, cycling, walking, photography, the forest, the mountains, coffee shops, doing all the things Barbara likes.

We are excited about the next few years of challenges, new places to see and new things to experience.

We want to share this with family and friends by way of this blog.

The header photo is from our Camino de Santiago walk and was taken on the 21st of May 2016 on the Meseta between the towns of Castrojeriz and Fromista in the province of Castilla y Leon, Spain.

The way we were in 1978

The way we are in 2015

Two drifters off to see the world, there's such a lot of world to see, We're after the same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bend, My Huckleberry Friend, Moon River and me. (Moon River, Henry Mancini et al.)