By pure luck I was born on a farm in Africa. Specifically, South Africa, and more specifically in the heart of the Garden Route in the Southern Cape region of the Western
Cape. This area is described as one of the most beautiful parts of South Africa and it’s no exaggeration, although South Africa is blessed with many and diverse breathtaking areas. […]
The birth of the Great American road trip 100 years ago For about two weeks every summer between 1914 and 1924, a group of American friends who called themselves the Four Vagabonds would climb in their Model Ts and hit the open road, travelling to some of the United States’ most scenic areas, stopping off […]
With a name like that we just had to go and see what it was like. If you’ve got an adventurer’s heart you gravitate to places like these like moths to a flame. Dana Snyman, a famous Afrikaans journalist, once wrote in the WEG magazine that the Moordenaarskaroo is like the G-spot – everybody’s heard […]
Why take the N2 to Cape Town when you can embark on an epic journey down South Africa’s own Route 62? Reminiscent of the iconic Route 66 in the United States made famous by the Nat King Cole song in 1946, this quirky meander takes intrepid travellers from Robertson to Oudtshoorn, through Calitzdorp, Barrydale, Montagu […]
Attaquaskloof – Valley of Violence In our previous issue we started the Ox-Wagon N1 story in Heidelberg and crossed the mountain into the Klein Karoo via the Gysmanshoek Pass. In this issue we continue our historic journey. We travel East on the gravel R327 which takes us over Gouritz River and on to Cloetes Pass […]
“It is, perhaps, not just the journey that counts, but also the road that is travelled. And it’s not necessarily the high road or the low road that matters, but rather the story behind the road that’s important.” From early days a need for a link between the coast and the interior existed. With the […]
Groot sportnutsvoertuie en viertrek dubbelkajuite is gewild in SA, want hulle maak sulke goeie leefstyl voertuie. Groter is beter en die voertuie is behoorlik toegerus. Sommige manne is so ingerig, as hulle kamp op slaan word tot hul pos afgelewer! Dis lekker om te sien en lekkerder om te besit, maar beteken dit dat jy […]
Article: Hugo Leggatt If you had been sitting on the Wilderness dunes in late August 1788 (nearly 230 years ago) it is unlikely that you would have seen any other people. Certainly there would have been no houses and no roads, no bridges over the river. There might well have been buffalo and elephants near […]
Malgas se Pont. Laai jou voertuig op ‘n vlot en sleep hom oor die rivier. Nee, ernstig! Baie mense het al gehoor van die pont by Malgas, maar hoeveel het al uitgery en gaan kyk hoe lyk dié kruising van die Breede Rivier? Glo my, die uitstappie is die moeite werd. As as jy dit […]
‘n Ware Borgward-entoesias is die ou wat weier om in ’n BMW te klim! In die Klein-Karoo het ons destyds net Fords en Chevs geken. Maar hier rondom 1957 het ’n vindingryke ondernemer op Uniondale, ene mnr. Keller, ’n groot, nuwe, diamantvormige kenteken van gebakte emalje in swart, wit en rooi op sy voormalige fabriek […]