Aug 1, 2019 | Africa, Featured
More Elephants than you can shake a stick at This will cover our 2 days at Elephant Sands, mainly please just enjoy the photos of baby elephants playing. And big elephants ruling the joint. I have been having a slight issue with food, mainly I/we now struggle with...
Jul 30, 2019 | Africa, Featured
The attempted early wake up, Time, 8am. Temperature, Bullsh*t. We crawl unwillingly our of bed and start the day. Coffee, shower and hit the road headed for Francis Town for a restock and laundry. Apparently I cant wear the same shirt every day.. no matter how good I...
Jul 29, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Up early, I make a pot of coffee with a hint of vanilla.. which goes unnoticed.. the effort I put in.. .sheesh. It is way to bright for this time of day Morning at camp, about to get ready for the day An omelet and sun keep us occupied till 930. And pack up...
Jul 28, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Minimum wind on wake up, Coffee complete, we move to the voting stations, shower? 100% yes. With the water heated we get clean from the dust of the day past. Today is the test day for the dust issue, we will see if the holes are all sorted and I am pleased to...
Jul 27, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Sitting and enjoying coffee we feel it, a slight breeze, then a less slight breeze. Boom, chairs tip over, dust is blowing in our eyes. The ultimate struggle begins, packing up a RTT in wind. One down side the brochures never mention. With the struggle complete and...
Jul 26, 2019 | Africa, Featured
The birds wake us up today and its not to cold so we make our way out of bed, pack up with just a coffee and leave. We have skipped a few breakfast’s and need to stop doing that. But we did stretches so that sorta makes up for it. With the camera on time lapse we head...
Jul 25, 2019 | Africa, Featured
But not us…. Waking up early I head out and inspect wagon, adjust the exhaust and tighten a bolt. Basic stuff that can end a trip is easily fixed with a basic tool kit and some know how. Ignoring these small problems can snowball out of control. leaving you...
Jul 24, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Packing up early we have cake and coffee and roll out of the park headed for town, we have plans and try to somewhat stick to them. With plans to stay at a lodge with glamping we get wifi and sort it out, only to discover that its actually self catering, so some miss...
Jul 23, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Order up! Eggs, tomatoes and mushrooms for brekky, coffee on the side please. Today is a minimal drive day, we work our way past Paradise pool, well try to, the road is fully blocked. They won’t move. The elephants that is. After waiting for 30 minutes we figure it’s...
Jul 22, 2019 | Africa, Featured
The hippos were quite vocal last night, but nothing ever came into view. We have our usual slow removal from the tent, then the snail pace coffee drink. Why not just sit and enjoy the area. Our fellows campers are packed up and gone and we decide that we should...
Jul 21, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Waking up at 7, we quickly shower and finish packing. Motoring on into town we swing into the café to ask about the dress and grab a coffee. The dress is there but the lady is not, so that’s a win and we go about our restock. Heading into town we get our LPG refilled...
Jul 20, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Have you seen my dress? After a slow start to the day we begin planning, with a well thought out plan to make the most of the day we head out, stop number 1: ARB which wasn’t even open yet but he let us pick up a bbq mesh grill for our fire. Then off to Reiley’s for...
Jul 19, 2019 | Africa, Featured
We’re not doing that again… Time: 6AM Location: Sunday pan Temp: 1c Lions: MIA This was our one and only early wake up attempt, we froze, seen no lions, and got stuck behind slow driving tourists. But we did see a honey badger so that was a slight win....
Jul 18, 2019 | Africa, Featured
The birds, clearly sick of the snoring wake us up. Do do dooooo, on repeat. Nice the first time, after a while, please leave my camp. A light breakfast of toast and amarula coffee gets us running. I get all the cameras back on charge and transfer photos as required....
Jul 17, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Today is the day, we wake up once the sun has allowed the temperature to climb a bit. No point in freezing. With a small fire started back up Asareh starts breakfast, omelet . I go about the important business of heating up water, this is where metal jugs are...
Jul 16, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Start the car!!! Waking up we sit and enjoy our coffee, Normally we are the lazy campers leaving at 10-11 but to day we have some serious miles to cover, and its soft soft sand. We get rolling and head further north, the sun climbs higher and higher and...
Jul 15, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Sand….deep sand, It so bloody soft. We rise and make an amazing breakfast, avo’s and all. Heading north we start hitting this soft sand we were warned about, I drop down to about 10/12 PSI and we carry on, fuel consumption sitting around 25-30L per 100 im...
Jul 14, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Fuel Calculations We pull up to the gates of the CKGR and prepare ourselves. We are beyond excited. Proper off road time. We talk to a local who runs the private camps sites about fuel consumption. I’m not liking the numbers. I sit and crunch numbers while...
Jul 13, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Needs More Cowbell We wake the next morning and make our way to the watering hole on foot but there is nothing there, a bit of exercise never hurt though. Packing up we motor into town for a restock, as we have new plans. I don’t even know why we make plans...
Jul 12, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Welcome To Botswana We are up early as its freezing, 2c outside. Coffee never tasted so good. With Amarula that is. Packed up we motor for the border but of course take the back roads because why not. Most of this trip will end up being dirt roads. No one was keen to...
