“Wheres the Car?”

After the trip we had the day off to rest and recoup from the trip before getting back to work. That night we went out with Marian’s boss from the café, John, and his new flatmates.

Work went about as usual this week. We went to the Sunday Market to collect produce and visit Conrad.

That Monday, after Marian got off of work at the café, we went to go grocery shopping and we were packing for our next trip to Taranaki. However, as we walked out to the place where we had parked the car the night before after work, we noticed a big hole where the car was supposed to be parked. Here is the conversation that followed.

M: “Um, where is our car?” (Desperately hoping John will say he drove it somewhere that morning)
J: “I don’t know, did you take it to work?”
M: “NO! I never drive it to work at Velox.”
(pause)
J: “I think someone stole our car.”
M: “NOOOO! Are you serious!? Wah!”

So, we continue to cross our fingers to this day, but for now, CAC332 is RIP. We are hoping maybe someday the authorities will find part of it, and maybe we’ll get some of our money back. Unfortunately, we will have to cut our trip to Australia short as a result – but at least we will get to know.

Here is our little tribute: Peppy, thank you for the amazing journey you have taken us on. It was a delight to change your tire in the pouring rain at Franz Josef, buying new tires on you before the Northland trip, and using as many gas discounts from the super market to fill you up. You faithfully carried us around safely for five months, and showed us some really beautiful parts of New Zealand. So thank you for the good times, we await your return (even if in pieces) some day.






RIP Peppy.