Hi, we have finally left Cape town and lets hope this time it works, so far all is well. WE are at a park called riverside in klein brak, nice park on the bank of the klein brak river, they have had major floods in the area and the day before we arived here the park was under water, the river rose by 4 meters and everything was covered under water. when we arived I got out of buksie to take a look around and started talking to one of the campers and he mentioned that tthe people who we parked next to were from Aberdeen northen cape so i told him thats were we bought buksie, well what a surprise to find Hyde and Rina who we bought buksie from, what a nice couple, I ... read more

Hi to all of you waiting to hear whats happening, well not much at this stage, my neck is better, we are getting more organised and getting rid of stuff we dont need, we have been in Buksie for 2 months now and have not done half the traveling we were hoping for, but just as well, would have hated to break down in Zambia or Moz or anywhere else for that matter. Well a update on whats potting at the moment, Buksietjie (jeep) has blown 3 headgaskets in under 200 kl, Chris the owner of chapmans peak caravav farm has been very helpfull and gone out of his way to help where ever he could, took me to a cylinder head specialist ( on the back of his gsx 1100 BMW) and this guy said ... read more

Well we were just settled in at tieities bay when it all srarted, monday morning i woke up with a stif neck and thought nothing of it , tuesday was even wors so i decided to see the local doc, he gave me a injection to relieve the pain and relax the neck and some physio, by wednesday i was admitted to the local hospital and kept semi sedated, they aranged for a specialist to see me but the only problem was that he was in Capetown, so our dearest daughter and fiance had to drive to tieties baythat evening, break up camp and drive us back to C.T. we arived here at 04.30 morning, by the way buksietjie (jeep) also blew another head gasket and is still out of order. Docters did mri and found ... read more

Well it doesent always go the way we want, but so what, our little buksietjie decided it is not ready to go yet and so it just broke a exhaust valve and bluew the head gasket for good measure, we have taken it for repaires and hope to have it back by thursday, will most probely only leave next week. The aircon works well only use it at night for heating, Wanda doesent want to get out of bed now it is so nice in the van. cheers for now.... read more

some picks of our 1 st stop at chapmanspeak caravan park.... read more