The Golden Age of Motoring – Literally!
During a lunch with the South Cape Old Motor Club at a private motor museum, among the myriad of cars we spotted this beaut! […]
Category: Roadtrip
Viva die Papierkaart
In die digitale wêreld van GPS, selfoon toepassings en karterings programme is die goedige papier kaart gerelegeer tot die agterste gestoeltes. […]
Die dinge wat jou keer
5 km voor die Waterval-Boven tonnel, rigting Pretoria, is daar ’n plek genaamd Kruger Hof. Ek het al soveel keer daar verby gery, maar vandag het ek gestop. Voor ’n plekkie met die naam The Tickled Trout het Desmond gestaan, besig om gietwerk te doen. […]
Why Exploring South Africa is Great!
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. […]
Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost
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 […]
Moordenaarskaroo (Murderers’ Karoo)
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 […]
Riding Route 62
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 […]
The Ox-Wagon N1 Continued…
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 […]
The Ox-wagon N1 – Part 1
“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 […]
‘n Helse lekker karretjie.
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 […]