Category: Road Trip Oct 2013 – Sep 2014

Can you believe it? When we started it was hard to envisage the end; it seemed as if our trip would be for ever. Now a year has passed and it is the end. But let me be quick to add: the end of this trip; we plan to have many more in future… On… Continue reading Going Home

Calvinia is a typical Karoo town. It is dusty, with sparse greenery in gardens, if there is a garden at all, and the church is in the centre of the town with the streets built around it. Even the golf course has no grass; the “greens” are gravel, coated with oil and look like tar… Continue reading Calvinia & Carnarvon

En route to the Tankwa-Karoo National Park we popped in at the Waverley Hills Organic Wine and Olive Estate. What a wonderful place it is! All their wines, olives and products are certified organic. The garden is mostly indigenous and in the pond area they have attempted to emulate the Breede River eco system. Information… Continue reading Tankwa-Karoo National Park

It was 5 pm when we left AC Motorhomes in Brackenfell so we decided to find a relatively nearby campsite somewhere up the West Coast. Ufudu’s batteries were heavily ‘taxed’ during all the testing and setting of the electrics and had also not been charged during his stay at Diemerskraal, so Roger decided to charge… Continue reading Langebaan & Tulbagh

By now I am sure you have also come to associate an unscheduled visit to Rosebank with some form of unpleasantness or discomfort. And this one was no exception; in fact, it was probably the worst of all. We flew back taking all our dirty washing of the past few weeks as luggage and spent… Continue reading Rosebank, unscheduled…

The sky was crisp and clear after the cold front as we left Springbok. We decided that we had had enough of bad dirt roads for a while so kept to the N7 up to Vanrhynsdorp. Just before the turn off to Nieuwoudtville we stopped in at the Knersvlakte Spens to buy some more (you… Continue reading Nieuwoudtville to Cape Town

It was just before 6 in the evening when we eventually reached the Helskloof Gate and exited the Richtersveld Transfrontier Park. The GPS indicated a campsite near the small settlement of Kuboes, about 30Km south, so that is where we decided to spend the night. The road was very corrugated and the going was slow… Continue reading Richtersveld to Springbok

Experiencing the Richtersveld had been on our bucket list for a long time. Part of the Richtersveld is a World Heritage site and the Park area is the only true mountain desert in Southern Africa. Now we were on our way there! We left Brandkaros early and with great expectations. The reservations and check-in at… Continue reading Richtersveld Transfrontier Park

(We are posting this sitting in Ufudu parked in a dry river bed somewhere near Kuboes after leaving the Richtersveld Transfrontier Park late yesterday afternoon, 25/08/2014.) We left Suzi and the trailer at the Namastat campsite in Springbok and headed towards the Skilpad entrance gate of the Namaqua National Park. The wind was still blowing… Continue reading Skilpad to Brandkaros

The landscape between Klein-Pella and Springbok was rather bleak. Until about 30 Km before Springbok, that is! Suddenly the scenery changed; we were in flower country. There was evidence of recent rain, the veld was green, and as we got closer to Springbok the flower displays became more impressive. It is amazing how uplifting it… Continue reading Springbok