I am Ian Gunn of Tauranga, New Zealand, and following a lifetime filled with travel experiences shared with my late wife Lexie (1938-2023), am now travelling widely via motorhome exploring NZ. In addition, as a New Zealander, I currently travel overseas to Australia from time to time.
Lexie and I met within a group of mutual church friends in 1955 while tertiary students in Christchurch, and kept in touch intermittently over the years, meeting up in person in Scotland in 1961 while Lexie was teaching in the Borders and I was a postgraduate student at Kings College, Durham University in Newcastle upon Tyne.
We subsequently cemented our relationship by marrying in NZ in 1963, then living in NZ, Australia and Scotland up to 1969 when we settled in Auckland with our son Calum, born in Glasgow 1967. As a family we travelled widely throughout NZ and subsequently continued overseas travels. Calum first went to Europe then worked in the US for engineering consultants and the World Bank, travelling extensively in the Americas and Asia. Lexie and I motorhome (or RV) journeyed for 13 months throughout North America in 1984, then during the 1990s and early 2000s journeyed across, up, down and completely around Australia in numerous individual trips via motorhome. as well as taking motorhome trips to the UK and Europe. Calum meanwhile married Alicia from Lima in Peru while both were working in Washington DC, and they have travelled extensively in Europe and the Americas while taking breaks from their busy professional lives in Wellington.
For our family it has been, am Gunn, will travel.
This blog provides glimpses of my ongoing motorhome travels in NZ as well as the occasional visit to Australia