Sep 2, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Today our drone fights the earth… Check out that tube But we must start our day with the most important meal, coffee, alcohol and boiled eggs, the breakfast of champions. Hitting the road we quickly end up in a dead end, I figure by looking at the maps it’s a...
Sep 1, 2019 | Africa, Featured
No one wakes up happy today; I am in slightly better shape and meander for breakfast. Asareh sleeps till 11, and even then was not feeling very well at all. Lunch really did a number. To fill in the time I do some cleaning and small repairs on the wagon. With Asareh...
Aug 30, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Back in the wagon I cut across the back routes and we head south towards white lady, we stop about 10kms south for lunch. Russians and ciders. A good call as it’s a bit cool out with the wind. A family of giraffes wander around just down from the wagon paying us no...
Aug 29, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Waking up we shower, which is welcome after a few days in the dust and have a relaxing coffee. They must water the bushes near our tent as the bonnet is a bit wet and I absolutely eat shit off the bonnet, A good start to the day, we are off to the shop for a large...
Aug 28, 2019 | Africa, Featured
We get the fire started back up and use it to make coffee as we are pretty much out of LPG in both tanks. The sun takes ages to creep over the mountains. But a short time later we find ourselves working through the rocks to get back to the river bed to continue on. ...
Aug 27, 2019 | Africa, Featured
A shower and coffee get us running at a decent hour and we pick up Chiko, and with Asareh sitting on the center console we go to meet his family and buy some diesel from a local house. We meet his wife and child and gift them the rest of the cake we made the night...
Aug 26, 2019 | Africa, Featured
We wake up with our guard dog at the foot of the tent, we have no water though so we use our own tanks to get the day started. A quick coffee later we are at the marble mine having a look around. Very cool to see in person, we spend a few minutes studying the cuts in...
Aug 25, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Van Zyls Pass today!!! We are a little nervous as this has been rated as the hardest pass in Africa due to remoteness and how hard the track actually is. I had been in contact with Dawid from the pajero club who had been through 2 days before us, and he said he would...
Aug 24, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Van zyls bound!! We’re getting close but nervous. We bail camp by 8:20am. The flies. 1 hour later we near Okongwati and roll through town collecting a few little supplies, well, sugar and onions as that is all that is available. Although Asareh lucks out and spots fat...
Aug 23, 2019 | Africa, Featured
7AM the monkeys have gotten into our dishes. Noise noise noise. They were even taking my cutlery out of its window holder and jumping all over the awning. Clearly having a great time on their new playground. The hungover humans are not overly impressed. We start the...
Aug 21, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Waking up around 830, we are in no real rush today as we only have a short drive to Epupa. It takes us till 11 to get moving. 3 hour drive is ahead of us. The road has been upgraded over the years to the anger of a few travellers as now anyone can use it which causes...
Aug 20, 2019 | Africa, Featured
We start the day negotiating a washout and picking a wheel up. Good road to begin on and wake up to. Shortly we find a turn off and head towards what should lead us to the highway? We will find out. Pushing on we come across a dry rocky area, a horse slowly walks...
Aug 19, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Day 40 on the road, This has been great so far. We pack up as 2 locals walk past camp, I ask to confirm that this track does in fact meet back up with the highway. It does so we continue on, We hit the highway for a small amount then head back into the dirt to make...
Aug 18, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Eggs on toast followed by a cold shower, Lets roll. Pack up and were off. We hit the pavement, I put the foot down, then promptly begin braking, we have hit our 300 meter quota of black top for the day and hit the gravel again. Packing up On route Cleaned up nicely...
Aug 17, 2019 | Africa, Featured
In order to pay it back for the night, we do breakfast. 2 coffees later and a shower we are packed up and almost ready to hit the road, but first the owners grandpa has to show us his workshop. Now this place is cool, not only is it organized, but he has a WW1 german...
Aug 16, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Making our way for a quick stock up we head out hunting for a solar panel, no luck. I was hoping to take some stress of the battery while parked up for longer amounts of time. Back in SA I will take care of this issue. But we did nab a headlamp for the bathroom at...
Aug 15, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Up and molecule. Today is the cleaning day, the wagon has filled with dust over time and the tent needs a sweep out. We have access to laundry here so we get right to it stripping the tent empty and Asareh gets to test the 12V vacuum I bought. It actually works...
Aug 14, 2019 | Africa, Featured
A day at the local museum, there is so much cool stuff to see. A good way to stay busy. The curator is a 3rd generation German who gives me some history on the tractor out front and some of the info on mines around the area, very copper rich. They also have a ton of...
Aug 13, 2019 | Africa, Featured
Waking up to a beautiful sunrise or a poorly parked car, take your pick. Lol. We skip brekky and pull back onto the main road. We take a minute to stretch a bit while the tyres air back up. It takes about 2-3 minutes a tyre to go from 12 to 45psi. so very happy with...
Aug 12, 2019 | Africa, Featured
We wake up to a stunning sunrise over the open grasslands, complete with animals slowly making there way to the waterhole for a drink. We pack up the camp which takes about 30 minutes including dishes, very happy with that speed as that is not rushing. Soft sand With...
