Haere mai we are Kate & Rowan, you may be wondering how or why we started this journey. For the past few years we have endured a lot of set backs, some worse than others. For every step forward we took two steps back, business relationships turned sour, it felt like everyone was out to get us. So much that we go paranoid that everyone was out to get us. A huge failure lead us into discussions about ‘van life’ and hiting the road of freedom when Rowan came across some inspiration to walk. Rowan pointed out, “what is worse than one fat person in a small confined space?… Two fat people in a small confined space.”

The past few years we have gotten into some really bad habits and our lives have become more and more sedentary. The weight has piled on and we are just flat out lazy. A complete life change and reset is what we both desperately need. As much as we would have loved to just pack up and go right then we had a lot of stuff to get out of the way first. A whole shop worth of antiques, a house that overflowed with crap that we have accumulated, the house we lived in needed to be sold. It has been a 10 month monster job to taste freedom, but we got there in the end. Not exactly sure of what the future looks like and to be honest we don’t want to think further than one step in front of the other. If you have ever wondered about living in a tent roaming the wilderness of Aotearoa, track our journey as we escape the rat race.