Sunday 18 November

Inge and DJ make a walk in the morning. There are nice hiking trails in these mountains.

walk

The roof rack of the Land Rover is becoming a warehouse more and more. Some parts are: 3 suitcases, 3 totally warn tyres, wheel rim, triangle for towing the Ford, stairs for the roof tent and some wood for making the campfire.

roof magazine

It’s Sunday and we see a lot of bikers on the road. The roads are perfect for it, for now…

There is a sign: beware potholes!

potholes1

The road is full of it, some of them you can not avoid.

potholes2

We take a brake now and then. We have a nice music in the Land Rover and Dirk and Trudy make a little dance.

dance

After these bad roads, we check the wheels. The right rear wheel has got some more space in his bearing.

wheel check

Inge goes for a ride with Dirk-jan in the model T.

Inge+DJ

At 17.00 we arrive in Zastron.

We drove today 280 km.

Trudy plays a song on the guitar at the campfire.

Tomorrow we go to Queenstown.

Inge en DJ

Saturday 17 November

After a good night in our ‘private’ cottage, Dirk services the Model T. He can use the car lever again.

After the service, we film the cars of Kevin, he tells a lot about them.

He started building the 1911 runabout when he bought the headlights in a museum that closed. After that he builds the car ‘around’ it.

To import the parts from America is a very expensive job. 50% invoice Tax. Kevin is very handy and has many tools, he builds lots of parts by himself. He does this also for other people in the country. He is now building 3 Model T radiators.

He can talk for hours about cars.

At 12.00 we leave after a goodbye picture.

fam Regter+fam Casy

Before we leave the dogs are sitting already in ‘het bakkie’.

Inge doesn’t like dogs very much, but these ones are her friends.

IngesDogs

Kevin shows us the way. It’s a nice trip again.

on the road1

on the road2

cows

When we arrive at the right road we say goodbye to Kevin, and thank him very much for all his help.

goodbye

We drive trough the ‘Golden Gate Nat. Park’.

golden gate national park

The views are wonderful.

on the road3

We have to climb a very steep pass. The Ford runs very well, at the top the view is very nice.

nice view

Aside the road there are Ostrich’s, wildebeests, kudu’s and zebra’s.

zebra’s

ontheroad04

At 17.30 we arrive at Fourisburg, at a campsite between two big rocks, beautiful place.

beer on the campsite

Today we drove 166km.

Tomorrow we go more south in the direction of the coast.

But first a good sleep in the tent again.

DJ

Friday 16 November

Today we go to the new tires, Kevin Casey has them, he lives nearby Harrismith. About 190km driving.

During a tankstop we are stopped by Theresa, she works for the local newspaper and wants to write about our trip.

local newspaper

During a brake we see a lot of schoolchildren, they probably have a brake too.

kids

At the Ford garage in Harrismith we take a cup of coffee and call Kevin.

Ford garage

After the coffee Kevin shows up, with 3 very big dogs in his ‘bakkie’.

First the model T gets a serious check.

watching at the model T

After this we follow Kevin to his house.

on the way 1

He lives 30km away from here, it’s more than 25km offroad.

on the way 2

Bad road but very nice views!!

Around 5 o clock we arrive at his farm

entrance

farm

After a cup of tea Sandy shows us where we can sleep tonight, what a hospitality!

Sandy+Inge

Kevin shows us his cars. Really amazing, in the middle of nowhere this kind of collection.

He has a lot of wonderful cars.

collection1

collection2

collection3

Kevin takes 2 tires of the model T 1914, and one tire of a 1915 model of a friend of him, who is no in Switzerland.

remove tyre

We can put the T on the car lever, that is easy to work.

Kevin has a nice trick to replace the tyres when the wheels do not have to be removed from the car. This saves some time!

changing tyre1

changing tyres2

When we arrive in Cape Town, we put our old tires back on. And give this tyres to a friend of Kevin, during Christmas they will meet again.

changing tyre3

That looks healthy!

old and new

We make a bigger hole in the tankdop, so it can loose the air better.

bigger hole

Sandy cooks a lovely diner, after dinner we view the map for the best route to take.

route planning

Today we drove 186km

Tomorrow we go in the direction of the coast.

DJ en Inge

Thursday 15 October

Dirk services the Ford and also the LandRover, because of the highspeed yesterday, a fuel line was loose.

service

Dirk and Dirk-jan has a good conversation with the Model T.

consideration

Inge works on the website.

inge’s office

We have a slow start, Dirk and Trudy leave at 10.30. We leave at 11.00.

After a while we see the Ford standing besides the road on a steep hill.

The engine is running very hot.

overheated

tarmac

When we start it again we see that some petrol comes out of the carburator.

We take the spare one to find out how this is possible. We think it’s because of standing on a steep hill. The valve doesn’t shut off the carburator when it’s full.

carb check

During many roadblocks, the Ford gets a lot of attention of enthusiastic people.

road block

It starts to rain seriously.

Dirk+Trudy

rain

We are stopped by a very unfriendly police women.

She wants to see the turn indicators of the Ford and many other silly things. She doesn’t understand it at all.

After a lot of complaints we may leave.

At 17.00 we arrive at Standarton, in a guesthouse with Wifi that actually works!! Wow.

During the dinner it’s a real ‘a’social media party.

Foto appledew guesthouse

social media

Today we drove 213km.

Tomorrow we go to Harrismith to pick up the new tyres.

DJ en Inge

Wednesday 14 october

We wake up early, at 7.30 we leave. First we go to Graskop 140km from here, Dirk and Trudy slept there last night.

safari lodge

We drive trough the mountains with a lot of beautiful viewpoints. We stop for a cup of coffee at a viewpoint.

dj on the mountain

nice view

We make a stop at the river site

DJ at the river

We go high in the mountains, into the clouds. The temperature drops and there is rain.

cloud

Dirk and Trudy leave Graskop in the direction of Nelspruit.

That’s why they call it Graskop..

graskop

No service for the model T this morning all the tools are in the Land Rover.

Because we don’t drive behind the Model T today, we can go full speed with the LandRover.

The fuel consumption is 1:7 instead of 1:12 behind the model T…

At 17.15 we met Dirk and Trudy again at Forever Lodge at Badplaas. We are happy to see each other again!

forever lodge

We cook by ourselves and when we eat the dessert we watch the movie we made at the Kruger Park.

watching kruger movie

We drove today 421 km,

Tomorrow we go tot Standerton.

DJ en Inge

Tuesday 13 november

After being very busy at the campsite, we leave at 9.40 to the Kruger Park

camp

They tell us at the gate that the model T is not aloud in the park…Shit.

We decide to split up. Dirk-jan and Inge go into the park with the LandRover and Dirk and Trudy take another route to the south. We meet each other tonight.

modelT

Dirk-jan and Inge enter the gate

dj + inge

Immediately when we go into the park we see buffalos in the bush.

buffalo

It’s nice to discover the animals by ourselves, we see a lot of them.

zebra’s

giraffe

elephant

impala

kudu

Driving the small offroad routes is the best!

But takes a lot of time, we planned to go out of the park at 16.30 at the OrphenGate.

At 15.30 we check the map and find out we have to drive 2,5 hours more to get to the gate.

We decide to take the tarmac road.

There as well we see a lot of animals.

elephants at the river

at the bridge

wildebeasts

vulture

Our tank is getting low.

We stop at a lodge to fill it, more safe than in the open park..

filling up

The sun is going down, still we have 40km to go. We assume the distances in the park are in miles.

turtles

wild dog

sunset

At 18.30 we leave the gate, veryverylate according to the guard..

We call Dirk en Trudy that we go to find the nearest Lodge.

After driving 30km in the dark (very Dark) we find one.

In the bar the barman finds a scorpion.

scorpion

Today we drove 241km. 209 in the KrugerPark

Dirk-jan en Inge