This will be our last post for the year 2020. It has been a roller coaster three months for us with cutting ties with ‘normal’ suburban life and living in Trokkie full time. We’ve seen amazing places and met interesting and wonderful people and this has given us a taste of things to come. We’re …
One of our main issues before we started our life on the road was the overnighting question. In the past we always pre-booked a hotel, airbnb, self catering or, like on Trokkie’s maiden trip with the grand daughters, a caravan park. Now, being totally self sufficient, we have the opportunity to literally park the truck …
When we left Lamberts Bay, we took some more gravel roads to slowly make our way back to Cape Town. Somewhere halfway between Lamberts Bay and Piketberg we passed yet another massive solar installation: Paleisheuwel. Getting closer to Piketberg we, once again, drove amidst the yellow rolling hills of endless wheat fields and we could …
One of the things that has been on our bucket list: a photo of Trokkie with Table Mountain in the background. And as far as we were concerned, Bloubergstrand is the best spot for that. It was a beautifully sunny day when we arrived at the beach and we got out of the truck for …
When we left Swartberg Pass, we headed back to Cape Town. Always looking for the roads less travelled, we decided on a road between Laingsburg and Touwsrivier that runs paralell with the N1 and passes the Witteberg Nature Reserve. We had read that there was somewhere a cave with Khoisan Art and we wanted to …
After we had left Route 62 at Calitzdorp and passed through the Nels River valley, we arrived at the foot of the Swartberg Pass. We quickly popped in at Kobus se Gat for a lunch of authentic local fare, but unfortunately they were not open on that day. The owner confirmed however that, although there …