Big sappy paragraph upcoming

This trip has been one of, if not my, favourite trip ever.

I got to see some of my older friends, while I also met some new ones. If I made a list of all the people, it would go for ages

I want to thank all of the people who gave me advice on this trip. Any at all. Like I feel within myself (haha sappy but I do) feel like I've matured a little bit more and I feel more prepared to face school and life haha oh goodness. If that makes any sense at all that'd be great.

I want to thank all of my competition for playing with me. Pretty much - no, all of y'all were so nice and accepting of me. I felt so welcome again. It was so lovely.

I want to thank the venues that we played at. I want to thank the directors for running all of the comps that I went to.

I thank people that are reading this stupid blog thing. Like it is pretty dumb. You have to admit with some of that humour.

I feel like I learnt so much over, what, five weeks. I can't say enough but I feel like all of y'all are great.

And to clarify kiwis don't actually use y'all, it's just me and my specialness.

All of your collections and houses that we visited were fabulous. I can not thank everyone enough.

I am glad to be home though. I'm ready to get back into school and I'll be happy to start learning again and doing work (if I may say that). Especially catching up on Chinese! Haha.

I have to go now, and give my lovely sister a big hug.

For now, this is a goodbye. But (being sappy still), I'm sure I'll be back. Maybe we'll be back with a hearse? (That's a joke, but I'm not saying it ain't gonna happen)

谢谢你。
丹妮。
新西兰。

Don't know if this has been uploaded before, but oh well.

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They look happy to see y'all

Derek "So ya'll are from New Zealand? Oh yeah, I know where it is. It's kinda like Australia, right? Well, not really Australia but it's all green, right? Well, not really green, green. Do you know what I mean? It's kinda like Florida. Well not really Florida. It's hard to explain. But, Well, It's kinda like, well. Have you ever eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? Well, it's really not anything like that but you get what I'm saying, right?"

A post on Pinside with so much thanks and happiness? Impossible! Pinside's suppose to be negative and pessimistic about everything, there's no room for you happy people here

Thanks for taking us all along on this journey Dave and family . Look forward to catching up with you guys again , whether it be over here or in NZ .

Loved it guys. Thanks for taking us along for the ride again. Truly the best thing on Pinside!
Hope to see you out our way next time.
KC

Enjoyed. Thumbs UP

Hi Fiona, Danni and Dave,

wanna thank you for your impressive trip thru the states, for all the travel hints, pictures and experiences of so many nice places, also for your previous mad travel with an hearse (can´t believe this great idea).

Was not there in my live, its a not fullfilled dream for me and my family.

Pinballs unite the world, you prove this in an extremly friendly way .

Brilliant threat again Dave and Danni, thanks for taking the time to post

Great thread from front to back. Looking forward to welcoming y'all to TPF.

Another great trip! Thanks for sharing and hope to see yall on the next one.

Thanks for all the nice feedback Y,all!

Man, RD. I want to go to NZ just to see you're game room.

Is this your name and where you live? You will not believe the things I found when I googled it.

Around here, we make scrapbooks of our trips. It makes it easy to show people who visit and want to see pictures of our trip. I don't know if you're into that sort of thing but I thought I would throw that out there.

btw, Great Thread. Thanks for taking the time.

But isn't this thread already the ultimate scrapbook? Can't get any better really so what's the point

Copy to disc quick smart I got a painful lesson in that after losing a bunch of concert pics/vids when my last comp decided enough was enough and went permanently Awol, and my memory is fading as well, LOL. Old age is a nasty biaatcch that isn't big on sentimentality

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I copy all my pictures to pinside. It is my own personal cloud.

Good protection against HDD failure or accidental deletion, but not against theft or fire/flood! You should also backup online (I use BackBlaze, just $5 a month unlimited) and/or have a second redundant backup that you keep with a friend/neighbour/other residence and swap them over regularly.

Followed by multiple "high kicks" to the nuts!

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Thanks to rotordave we have created a new subforum for threads like this one:

Pinball Road Trips.

Feel free to share your own experiences and create topics in this subforum!

Just found your thread , don't know how I missed it . Loved the Route 66 thread too . My biggest question after reading through the whole thread wasn't answered . Did metal church play the dark ?? I F'n loved that album back in the day ! Thanks for another great thread Rotordave and family !!

Good setlist, but Ton of Bricks would have put it over the top.

Too bad , would still be an awesome show !

Hey RD
I really enjoy reading your Travel Odyssey Threads. You make some very interesting stops. Almost feels like I'm on vacation too.
Wally

If you havent already Dave , you should do a thread about your part of the world (including that amazing game room and town ) love your threads !

He could call it "RotorDave's NZ Everyday Life Odyssey"

Subscribed!

oooo...lookit those NZ bitches !!

Lmfao . Oops !