In Frankfurt, Germany, about 2000 as motoring editor of the Otago Daily Times for the launch of the second-generation Holden Vectra. : All sights seen on the ultimate road trip

Retiring Oamaru bureau chief David Bruce. PHOTO: REBECCA RYAN : All sights seen on the ultimate road trip

David Bruce as a young cadet reporter at work for the Oamaru Mail, about 1969. : All sights seen on the ultimate road trip

Setting up a news photograph with Scott's Own Sea Scouts at their Oamaru Harbour scout den, about 1990s. : All sights seen on the ultimate road trip

At an Oamaru Mail news conference - (from left) Greg Cayford, Jo Keppel, David Bruce, Andrew Jones, Heather Chalmers and Wendy Hughes, about 1986. : All sights seen on the ultimate road trip

Locked in the Oamaru police cells by Oamaru Mail staff the day he left to join the Otago Daily Times in 1988. : All sights seen on the ultimate road trip