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Augrabies Falls

From Kanoneiland we continued to Kakamas and Augrabies Falls . A trend we saw in Kanoneiland and we continued to see all the way up to Augrabies was the vast expanse of vineyards. It was quite amazing...

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Sep 2, 2020

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Arid land vs Orange River

Sishen After our "petrol station free camp" we continued south towards Olifantsfontein and passed the massive Sishen mine set-up on the right. An aerial shot (courtesy of Google Earth) shows just how ...

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Sep 1, 2020

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Ominous skies and graveyards

D (departure) Day Eventually – 1 September 2020 – D (departure) Day had arrived. Start of Spring in South Africa, had been the goal to coincide with our “Start Of Road Trip” and we made it … kinda! Th...

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Aug 31, 2020

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Trokkie in Covid 19 lockdown

Finally … this is Trokkie: our new home on wheels. Specs and why: Hino 500 (12 ton) because we wanted to have enough loading capacity for water and extra diesel. We’ve also had extremely good experien...

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Mar 5, 2020

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Pilanesberg

Nearing the end of February and still not “free” of Gauteng, we got out of there again and took a drive to Pilanesberg National Park . We booked for three nights at the Manyane Campsite , which is sit...

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Feb 19, 2020

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Trokkie's Maiden Trip

When we came back from family visit and traveling in Australia – January 2020 – we knew we had about four weeks time to get Trokkie ready for our first road trip: our daughter Erika, husband Pat and t...

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Feb 3, 2020

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Flying over the South Pole

Our two sons have been living in Australia since May 2010 and January 2011 respectively. That implies of course that we have been flying many times between South Africa and Australia. The outbound fli...

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Jan 16, 2020

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Fremantle

During our 2020 Perth family visit we went discovering on our own and took a ride to the coastal town Fremantle – or Freo as the locals love to call their town. After parking the car, we strolled to w...

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Jan 16, 2020

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Perth

After the first part of our 2019 – 2020 family holiday and a flight hampered by smoke from the bush fires on the East side of the country, we arrived in Perth and were greeted with hugs and balloons a...

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Jan 15, 2020

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Smoky flight from Griffith to Perth

When we arrived back in Griffith from our Noosa Christmas trip , we saw that the heavy smoke we had passed on the way, had been an indication of how far the smoke of the NSW bushfires had drifted inla...

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Jan 4, 2020

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Noosa Christmas Trip

From the onset of our 2019-2020 holiday in Oz, we knew that Peter and Jacinta and baby Louis wanted to go to Noosa in Queensland for a Christmas Holiday break with family at the East Coast. Although o...

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Dec 18, 2019

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Wangaratta Wine Trip

After our amazing Uluru trip , we had one day to catch up with the family again before our son Peter had to go spend a week in Wangaratta with the mobile bottling plant of Casella’s Family Brands, the...

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Retired and with our family spread around the world, we decided to get out of here and hit the road to see more of this amazing planet! Feel free to browse our photos, read our stories, and follow us on our travels.

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