3 Autumn 2023 3 Autumn 2023 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption Vans can be SMALL but MIGHTY resources Vans can be SMALL but MIGHTY resources. Orange Sky are providing shower and laundry services to many in flood-affected areas right now. Up Up 3 Autumn 2023 , p 7

5 Spring 2023 5 Spring 2023 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption Watching the sunrise in Bluff Cruising on the open road. 
No where to be — everywhere to see. Heading for Te Anau. Mirror Lakes Homer Tunnel. Spot the Kea! Spot the Kea! (Homer Tunnel) Milford Sound! Somehow I scored a free kayak tour— under waterfalls, next to dolphins — just magical. Milford Sound! Probably the best day of my life so far. Milford Sound! Probably the best day of my life so far. Milford Sound! Probably the best day of my life so far. Queenstown Lakes Queenstown Lakes Queenstown Lakes Clay cliffs, Omarama Felt like the Grand Canyon Arthur's Pass Thunder Creek Falls Thunder Creek Falls on a rainy day. (Mt Aspiring National Park) Tunnel Beach, Dunedin Tunnel Beach, Dunedin Moeraki Boulders Pancake Rocks, Punakaiki Lake Rotoiti, Nelson Lakes National Park Port Underwood. A cool detour to Picton, very scenic. Freedom camping near Featherston Freedom camping near Featherston Freedom camping near Featherston Castlepoint, Wairarapa My solo adventure began on my 20th birthday Around my own back yard Maia Steiner I’ve always dreamed of travelling around my own back yard in a van and I finally did! I saved up and brought myself Wally (my van) in May 2022. I worked 6-day weeks to save up some travel money and left for my solo adventure on my 20th birthday! I got home a few days before Christmas and sold my van not long after, for the same price I brought it for. All in all it was an awesome trip I will never forget! Get out there and travel our awesome country! Photos ©2023 Maia Steiner Up Up 5 Spring 2023 , p 30

8 Winter 2024 8 Winter 2024 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption The top of Dansey’s Pass Tony Kissell The top of Dansey’s Pass (935 metres) looking out toward Oamaru 50 kms in the distance. ©2024 Tony Kissel Up Up 8 Winter 2024 , p 13

8 Winter 2024 8 Winter 2024 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption easy, effective and safe Diesel heating in caravans and motorhomes – 
it’s easy, effective and safe Collyn Rivers Diesel heating for caravans Diesel heating for caravans and motorhomes is easy, effective and safe because it hugely reduces the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, Collyn Rivers reports. Diesel heating for caravans and motorhomes is also relatively affordable. Furthermore, it is easy to self-install. Fuel is readily available, safe and readily stored. LP gas versions are also made. This is the Webasto Dual-Top water heater unit. The Eberspächer (Dometic) unit is similar. Pic: Webasto. Carbon monoxide poisoning is your main risk (of heating) in a confined space. Carbon monoxide is colourless and odourless. It forms when a carbon-based substance (coal, LP gas etc) burns without enough air. The (only minor) indications are headache, nausea, fatigue, and then unconsciousness. If you sleep, you may never wake up again. Carbon monoxide is rightly called the ‘silent killer’. It also causes brain damage at minor concentrations. Your second risk is oxygen deprivation. We need about a half a cubic metre of air an hour. We convert about 4% of that air into carbon dioxide. If you are in a confined space the exhaled carbon dioxide level rises. As a result, the remaining oxygen level falls. It is normally 21%, but symptoms (such as fatigue) set in below 15%. Brain damage consequently occurs shortly after. Oxygen deprivation is serious (or lethal) in poorly ventilated areas. It occurs whether heated or not. See Gas risk in caravans. Diesel heating for caravans and motorhomes — safety Use diesel or LP gas heating in caravans and motorhomes to avoid such issues. Both draw air from outside the RV into a tiny furnace that is sealed from the living area. Diesel oil or LP gas is injected and ignited in this furnace. Air to be heated is blown across it and ducted to wherever needed. The ‘burnt’ air expels to the atmosphere. Burning gas is thus totally sealed from the air heated within the vehicle. The units were first made in the 1930s by Germany’s Eberspächer and later by Webasto. Both are still respected worldwide. The units are similar in many ways. Some parts (such as silencers, calorifiers etc.) are interchangeable. The Snugger, a similar but cheaper unit, is sold by Diesel Heating Australia. The Snugger unit. Pic: Diesel Heating Australia. The company’s Genesis product too is worth considering. So also is the Alde Compact 3010 LP gas unit. This combines space heating and water heating. It also runs from 230 volts ac. The Genesis II provides space and water heating in one unit. Pic: Diesel Heating Australia. Truma introduced similar (LP gas) units a few years ago. The Truma LP gas space heaterPic: Truma The two main types are air heating, and air and water heating. Some are made in various sizes. Use the smallest to heat annexes, camper trailers, small caravans and motorhomes. Use the next size up to heat large RVs. Air heating The basic (soup-can size) unit is best floor mounted. A separate tiny electrically-driven pump, hose and filter connects to a separate tank. Alternatively (with motorhomes) to the vehicle’s tank. You can locate the electric control panel wherever convenient. Water heating The combined space/water heaters use a furnace unit to heat glycol. This flows through a calorifier heat exchange unit, that also stores heated water for taps and showers. In addition. small fan-powered radiators blow hot air wherever required. The calorifier is also available as a tiny unit that heats water as it is drawn. The heaters in action We used a Webasto air heater unit in our OKA in outback Australia. Temperatures there drops quickly after sun-down, often below freezing. Even on its lowest setting, it heated the OKA to 25º C. Expect to use a fifth of a litre of diesel per hour. We had a Webasto Dual-Top air and water heating unit in our Tvan camper trailer. Used too, around Australia, it worked well and reliably. Its on-line calorifier supplied hot water for cooking and showering. The water is hot within a few minutes. You must, legally, in Australia, add a tempering valve. This valve automatically mixes cold and hot water. It prevents it from exceeding 50º C. Without it, however, the water reaches a scalding 80º C. If not silenced, the exhaust is noisy outside the vehicle. It bothers nearby campers. You can reduce this by adding the (now standard) exhaust silencer. You can reduce it yet further by adding an inlet silencer. The units are still not totally silent, but unlikely to disturb others. Here is the Webasto Dual-Top water/space heater in my Tvan. Pic: rvbooks.com.au Further information on diesel heating for RVs is in Caravan & Motorhome Electrics and The Camper Trailer Book. In addition, The Caravan & Motorhome Book. You can use these units to heat rooms in solar-powered houses. My books on solar are Solar That Really Works (for cabins and RVs), also Solar Success (for homes and property systems). rvbooks.com.au ©2024 RV Books This article: onlineckw.nz/d-heater Collyn Rivers has published 6 books relating to caravans and motorhomes. Information about them & more than 150 searchable articles are included on his website: rvbooks.com.au Up Up 8 Winter 2024 , p 32

1 Spring 2022 1 Spring 2022 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption A gathering on an Ohope orchard A group of us met up in Ohope, Bay of Plenty. in August 2022. ©2022 Angela Bryan Poptop campers meet up ©2022 Adam Beaumont How to organise a group weekend Mary Reid We all look forward to the catch ups, the fun, laughter and good times; doing as much or as little as we choose at the venues. I give a venue address and date, at the right price, along with a list of possible activities that members can explore, including just relaxing and lazing and refreshing ourselves. We regularly have around 20–25 people at our camps in a range of motorhomes, caravans, buses and yes tents too, along with up to 6 dogs. We have a wide range of people of all ages and senses of humour. Happy hour (and beyond) can often mean a good belly laugh or three as people get the mood going and the stories flowing. BY: Mary Reid, All Points Camping Club in Waikato/ Bay of Plenty Keep on making memories, having fun, meeting new people and exploring: #campingTheKiwiWay Photo: An All Points Camping gathering on an Ohope orchard (Bay of Plenty). August 2022 Photo: Poptop get together ©2022 Adam Beaumont Up Up 1 Spring 2022 , p 26

1 Spring 2022 1 Spring 2022 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption I hear people on Facebook saying ‘I am with xxx and I have no speed problems.’ This is not a big help... Getting the internet on the road Miriam Richardson There are two ways to get on the internet while on the road: with your mobile phone or with mobile broadband. ONE: mobile phone Modern mobile phones use the internet routinely: have you checked your email? viewed a YouTube video? read Facebook? used Campermate? used Google? All of these use the internet through your phone connection. The plan on your phone determines how much internet you can use in a month. TWO: mobile broadband There is a network of towers through NZ that allows Netspeed and Wireless Nation to give travellers access to mobile broadband. Modem To connect to mobile broadband you need a modem. Generally travellers get an adapter to connect the modem to their 12v/24v power. Choosing: mobile phone or mobile broadband? If you are content to do all your internet connection through your phone, stick with a mobile plan. If you want to connect a tablet, iPad or a computer as well as your phone, you have a choice. To choose a plan you need an idea of • how much data you need, • where you might travel, • what devices you want to connect to the internet, and • whether you want to use your phone as the modem. How much data do you need? What do you normally use? Look back on the last few months of internet use, if you can. Will you continue to use the internet the same? Might you use use less when travelling? Might you watch TV through the internet and use a lot more? Hot spot the phone or use a modem? To use your phone to connect all your devices to the internet, you need a plan that allows you to do it: it is called ‘hot spotting’. When you ‘hot spot’, your phone becomes a wireless network that lets other phones, computers etc get online via the phone. The phone needs to sit where the signal is good while you are using it as a modem. Coverage: where can I get a signal? Your phone/internet provider has an online map that shows their coverage — where you can expect to get a signal. Mobile phones have stronger and more complete cover near towns and cities. Different providers share the towers. The coverage maps show the strength of the signal. There are dead zones with no coverage at all (no towers). Speed The biggest complaint people make is about the speed of the internet when they are travelling. There are several reasons why the internet could be slow. You are comparing it to a fibre connection at home. Mobile broadband is slower than fibre. It just is. You are a long way from a tower, so the signal is weaker, or there is something between you and the tower. Try moving. The nearest tower has lesser capacity. Some towers have greater capacity than others. Areas with few people may well have lesser capacity — and a bevy of motorhomers enjoying the back of beyond at the same time might overload it. You are parked up with a bunch of other travellers who are all using the same tower at the same time to get online. (Netspeed, Wireless Nation and local providers are all using the same towers.) You, or your neighbours are doing something that uses a lot of data: downloading video, visual phone calls, online TV or listening to radio, all use quite a bit of data. The locals are busy and using the same tower at the same time. The modem or its connection needs refreshing: do a speed test ( www.speedtest.net ), and then talk to your provider. _____________ I hear people on Facebook saying ‘I am with xxx and I have no speed problems.’ This is not a big help: it all depends where they have been travelling, how far they have been from the mobile tower, when they tend to use the internet, and how many others are using it at the same time. There might be particular times when the towers are being overworked: before work; after school; evening entertainment time (video and TV use a lot of data). Try after 11pm, at 1am, at 6am: if the speed is good, then it is a competition problem. ____________ Aerials Having an aerial on the roof might improve your internet connection. BY: Miriam Richardson Photo: ©2022 Miriam Richardson Next issue: How to choose an internet provider Up Up 1 Spring 2022 , p 23

7 Autumn 2024 Autumn 2024 ISSUE 7 BUY PDF CONTENTS Click on image for full view and caption The cat comes too ©2024 Warren B Smith The cat comes too Warren B Smith The cat comes too. This spot is only 6km from home. And the cat always come along for the adventures… ©2024 Warren B Smith GO TO Celebrating Summer only 6km from home... Up Up 7 Autumn 2024 , p 16 ISSN 2815-827X (Online) | ISSN:2815-8261 (Print) ISSUE 4 editor@campingthekiwiway.org

11 autumn 2025 11 autumn 2025 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption ©2025 M Richardson waiting to get a freedom camping fine But I am not freedom camping… Megan Hieatt I am a keen night photographer, and when I go away to dark sky areas, my motorhome is my transport as well as my accommodation. I often stay at permitted camping locations (often NZMCA eg Tekapo or DOC) rather than campgrounds but usually go to better sites to take photos for better foregrounds, compositions, etc, and these are often not right next to the parking area, eg Castle Hill/Kura Tawhiti. I’m just waiting to get a freedom camping fine as some official will decide that I’m camping when I’m actually parked using my RV as my means of transport, particularly in busy places like Queenstown, Tekapo or Wanaka. I’ve considered making a big sign to put on my windscreen/side door saying “Taking nightscape photographs, NOT camping”! Queenstown was always apparently bad for ticketing empty motorhomes and campers parked on the street when they were in fact empty and the occupants were staying in a hostel or with family/friends and they had to jump through all sorts of hoops to prove they were not camping, difficult when staying with family and there are no bookings or payments to use as evidence! I guess all you can do is stay at places where you pay for the night and present any receipts as evidence that you were not in fact, camping, and take photos of your vehicle at the campsite when you get there as future evidence of your overnight stay! Preparing to freedom camp This offence of “preparing to camp” is going to open a big can of worms. What’s the difference between cooking dinner or an evening walk at a nice spot, and “preparing to camp”? If I’m staying somewhere with a reserved site and its not so nice I will often go elsewhere and return to the campsite later in the evening. Those of us who use a RV as our transport when away from home will be unfairly discriminated against here. I’m sure if I was in the car doing my night photography it would not be an issue. Up Up 11 autumn 2025 , p 2

Useful information and comment and camping in practice. Summer 2023 ISSUE 6 BUY PDF CONTENTS Up More for councils and government, Issue 6 Up Editor In the Summer issue 4 Editorial 4 Self-containment certification: Which is yours? 4 What to do? Upgrade? Wait? 10 Who is advocating for NZers who go camping? 13 There’s no need to rush this summer: Is it better on the other side? 14 Fire safety: caravans and sleep-outs 15 LiFePO4 is a safe choice for a motorhome or caravan 23 NZ’s independent national network for self-containment Camping in action 8 You have to be here… 11 Biking the Waikato River Trails 16 Van tour of the op shops 20 Ten tips for a successful family camping trip 25 Sharing the summertime 27 50 years of camping at Morison’s Bush 33 Battle Hill Farm Forest Park 34 Stop and Stay 35 Events Articles on freedom camping and self-containment 2 The freedom camping law needs to change 4 Self-containment certification: which one is yours? 4 What to do? Upgrade? Wait? 4 Editorial — Caught in the middle 10 Who is advocating for NZers who camp? 13 There’s no need to rush this summer 23 NZ’s independent national network for certification Up Up 1/1

Winter 2025 ISSUE 12 BUY PDF ToC Click on image for full view and caption chilly-frost-_H_1.webp GO TO CHILLY CHILLY CHILLY OUT THERE I also have a good diesel heater and a warm dog. Frost Heather Auckram Woke to a -4˚ frost in Southland this morning. Slept with my woolly hat and socks on and was cosy enough. I also have a good diesel heater and a warm dog. Expected high of 3˚ today. ©2025 Heather Auckram Up Up 12 Winter 2025 , p 12

9 Spring 2024 Spring 2024 ISSUE 9 BUY PDF CONTENTS Click on image for full view and caption Fix-a-Potty™ © 2024 Teresa Hall Ignore the bad press that still pops up on Facebook. Kiwi ingenuity & insults Miriam Richardson With the new regulations for self containment, Kiwi ingenuity has been handily exercised on a number of fronts. The Black Moa™ toilet has been designed and manufactured from scratch, the Australian Gotta Go toilet , with a choice of composting or chemical toilet cassette has been brought to NZ ( ckw.nz/gottago ), the Fix-a-Potty™ people have worked on a simple and clever way to fix existing portable toilets to the vehicle in a way that satisfies the regulations, and Fix’n’rail is due out in October. While the new toilet-makers have been welcomed with interest, the Fix-a-Potty™ people were faced with severe scepticism, not to say unfair condemnation, that still continues to pop up on Facebook and confuse people. To be clear: the mechanism has been thoroughly evaluated and it complies. The controversy arises out of very poorly written law and equally poorly written regulations, neither of which went through an appropriate evaluation process with campervan and motorhome professionals before being enacted/promulgated. The base of the matter, is that a toilet must remain fixed to the vehicle while the toilet cassette/holding tank is removed for emptying. The Black Moa™ toilet has a bottom box fixed to the floor that holds the toilet up while the cassette is removed. The Gotta Go opens at the top so cassettes can be removed while the toilet remains fixed. The Fix-a-Potty™ bracket and the Fix’n’Rail fixes the top of a previously portable toilet to the floor, in a way that allows the cassette to be removed from beneath it for emptying. Whew! We can celebrate having a choice of reasonably priced options for complying with a patently absurd law that defines the non-fixedness of toilets as a problem. ◼️ Images: Black Moa™ © 2024 mystenterprises.com Gotta Go © 2024 joolca.co.nz Fix-a-Potty™ © 2024 Teresa Hall Fix’n’Rail © 2024 mystenterprises.com Up Up 9 Spring 2024 , p 24

8 Winter 2024 8 Winter 2024 BUY AUTHOR INDEX AUTHORS Click on image for full view and caption Cycle camping Andrew Morton Cycle camping with a teardrop and a fly. ©2024 Andrew Morton Up Up 8 Winter 2024 , p 21