Wishing all of you Christmas blessings and an adventurous 2024.  Dear Ulrich , thank you for an epic journey through Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal. For all the research and planning since 2018. I was very disappointed when the original trip was cancelled because of COVID. For letting me help transforming the RAV into some sort… Read More Musings from the armchair overlander

We woke up to a lot of mist that lingered until mid-morning. We had not planned anything for the day but Charlotte had done some googling and suggested we take a drive to a place called Moulay Bousselham about an hour to the north. The drive along the highway went past many plastic hot houses… Read More Where there’s a will there’s a way [C&T, Day # 54: 9.12.2023]

After the marathon two-day road journey into the desert and back through spectacular mountain and desert scenery (Pizzas on the Piste), we looked forward to being able to have a bit of time to rest and relax. By the time we reached Marrakech we had covered about 2500 km since we had left home, in… Read More In and around Marrakech [Vehicle 2, Day # 7-12: 23-29.10.2023]

This article is from the old blog in 2020: One of the places Trevor and Charlotte visited during their enforced stay in South Africa during Covid. Golden Gate Highlands National Park is located in Free State, near the Lesotho border. The name is derived from the golden, ochre and orange hued, deeply eroded cliffs and… Read More Golden Gate