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Rainbow Road: One of Bumble’s Most Memorable Adventures Yet
If you love overlanding, life on the road, and discovering New Zealand’s remote backcountry roads, Rainbow Road is the kind of trip that stays with you. This recent journey in Bumble took us through stunning high-country scenery, across river crossings, and into the kind of wild landscape that makes travelling by expedition truck so rewarding. The reel below shows one of the standout moments from the trip — Bumble crossing a river on what may become the inspiration for the ne
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Living Full-Time in Bumble: Our New Zealand Overlanding Life and How It Became a Children’s Book Series
Packing the truck to leave our house forever. When most people first meet Bumble, they ask the same kinds of questions. Do you really live in that truck? Where do you sleep? How do you cook? Where do you go? What is it like living on the road full-time? The short answer is yes — we really do live in Bumble full-time, and we have been travelling around New Zealand in our expedition truck for an extended season of life that has completely changed how we think about home, advent
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Bumble’s Snowy Surprise: The Real New Zealand Truck Adventure Behind the Book
If you have ever dreamed about overlanding through New Zealand, living on the road, and waking up somewhere completely unexpected, then Bumble’s Snowy Surprise gives you a glimpse of that magic through the eyes of a child-friendly truck adventure.
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Bumble and the Big Mountain Road: A True Overland Adventure Through Central Otago
Some roads are just roads. Others feel like stories waiting to happen. That was exactly the case with the journey that became Bumble and the Big Mountain Road , the second book in our children’s adventure series about Bumble the expedition truck. Based on a real trip through Central Otago, this sto ry follows Bumble, Kenny, and Ra Ra along one of New Zealand’s most remote and memorable backcountry routes. For families who love trucks, overlanding, van life, road trips, and tr
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Bumble Conquers Danseys Pass: The True Story Behind a Brave New Zealand Children’s Book
Some roads have a reputation long before you drive them.
Danseys Pass is one of those roads.
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