Media Release
22 October 2013

Travel Dream Comes True For Winners of the Ultimate Road Trip

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Richie and Roz Fitzpatrick with Motek Brand Manager Stuart Foster

Roz Fitzpatrick from Kamo, Whangarei has dreamt of seeing the Grand Canyon for many years.

Her interest was first ignited when her parents returned from visiting the Arizona national park and shared tales of experiencing the 1500m deep gorge on the back of donkeys.

“I’ve always wanted to visit the Grand Canyon,” Roz says. “My parents visited and it’s always interested me.”

Luckily for the Clinical Nurse Manager at a Whangarei rest home she will get to visit the great wonder and much more after winning the Ultimate Road Trip, a gate prize draw at the Covi SuperShow, sponsored by thl brand, Motek.

“I am over the moon,” Roz says about being drawn from over 5,000 entries for the once-in-a-lifetime motorhome experience.

“It’s wonderful. I told work I’ll need 60 days off between now and the end of next year and they said fine and are very pleased for me.”

Roz and her husband Richie, a retired handyman, won the prize consisting of 28 days in America, 21 days in Australia and 10 days in New Zealand, plus flights, transfers, $500 in petrol vouchers and discount vouchers for selected campsites.

“We will do the 10 days around New Zealand in November. Next May we will travel around America. The timing coincides with my husband’s birthday which is lovely. We definitely want to see LA, Disneyland, San Francisco and maybe New York, if we have time. We’ll do Australia late 2014,” Roz adds.

Richie and Roz have already begun asking friends for travel trips and must see locations as they prepare for their own exhilarating travel encounters.

Every year the Fitzpatrick’s make the two hour drive to Auckland to attend the Covi Supershow.

“We’ve had a motorhome since 2005,” Roz says. “We’ve travelled all over the North and South Island several times. We meet up with friends who also have motorhomes for weekends away. It’s a great lifestyle. My husband likes attending the Covi Supershow to look at what’s new and buy things. We always arrive home with something new!”

Brand Experience Manager for Motek, Stuart Foster says, “Aucklanders Julie, Mark and their daughter won the Ultimate Road Trip in 2012 and raved about their mind-blowing experiences so much we decided to run the prize again this year.

“Motek is thrilled Roz and Richie won and will be able to create lifelong memories while seeing some of the greatest wonders of the world in the comfort of our motorhomes.”

Motek was the gate prize sponsor at the three-day Covi Supershow event held at Auckland’s ASB Showgrounds in September and saw in excess of 15,000 people through the gates over that time.

To enter to win the Ultimate Road Trip, Covi Supershow-goers got their ticket stamped at various stamping booths located around the showgrounds before placing their entries at the gate prize stand.

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