Roadside Dreams

What do you want to do before you die?

It all started with a simple question: what do I want to do before I die?

I contemplate this difficult but critical question quite often and before I set out on the road I came to a moment of clarity: I wanted to build a house for my birth mother — a definitive solution for the complex feelings I’ve carried with me throughout my experience as an international adoptee. That’s how this all started.

On my journey across Aotearoa, I asked the people I met the same question. These are their answers…