Travel writer Karen Goa and her boat-builder husband Ken fled their native Saskatchewan's bone-crackingly cold winters for New Zealand's hilly greenery and beaches in the 1980s. Twenty years on, the Canadian Kiwis rustle up a 1956 Chevrolet station wagon (on the Internet) and set off across Canada's back roads. From bear-ridden British Columbia to bald, blasted Newfoundland the couple poke around fishing villages, Hutterite colonies, Indian reservations, classy Quebec and the fearsome, bug-infested Far North finding out what Canadians across the land have been doing, thinking and eating while they've been away enjoying the New Zealand good life.

About the Author

Karen Goa is an Auckland-based travel and food writer and co-author of the travel book Bitten by the Bullet: Motorcycle adventures in India (New Holland Publishers NZ 2002). She is also a medical writer, general journalist and a fiction writer.