#174 Nomad Diary. 17-23 February 2024. Road Trip North Island, NZ. Napier. Te Awanga. Tokomaru Bay. Hicks Bay. Opotiki. 2 Years Living on Retirement Income. Less Taxes.
Darrell on the Way to The Fruit Shop Fruit Box From Fruit Shop Our Laundry Drying at Te Awanga Our Airbnb Saturday. 17. Morning Routines: Workout together; Make Breakfast; Read, etc. We stayed in for the morning. Darrell does a Saturday email to his Bible study group in Kenya plus others who want to be on his list. He also fixed and ate his lunch while I was just wanting to go for a ‘real fruit’ ice cream for my lunch. We drove over to a fruit stand in Hastings and found out that it’s a tour bus stop. Napier has cruise ship passengers who stop here and this is one of the excursions. We got Real Fruit Ice Cream here and a big box of assorted plums, apricots and peaches along with a large box of strawberries. And then headed back to our apartment in Te Awanga. We changed into swimsuits and walked to the beach. The tide was high and the beach is rocky, not sandy here. Neither of us wanted to go into the water. We got a good walk and then went back to ou...