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3 Kids, 2 Dogs and 1 Old House

Say Hello To Our Little Herb Garden

WIN A Rookie USA Voucher for R2500

Our DIY Harry Potter Party

CURRENTLY – We’re Home, Now What?

Optimus Goes Rouge In Roma, Lesotho

Add Malealea To Your Lesotho Bucket List

Hello Lesotho! Our First Border Crossing And Stay In Mohales Hoek

Lady Grey – A Night In The Middle Of Nowhere

Things I Have Learned Since Leaving The City And Making A Van My Home

Maclear – A Farm Stop On The Way To Lesotho

Coffee Bay – A Cultural Tour

Life In The Van – Captured By Zorann Elizabeth #Vanlife

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    Say Hello To Our Little Herb Garden

    5 November 2019
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  • Maletsunyane Falls – The Highest Single Drop Waterfall in Africa and The Windiest Hike I’ve Ever Been On

    17 October 2019

    Things have been quite quiet since we’ve been back in the land of the normal. It was inevitable I guess, because we went from living our best free lives to…

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  • WIN A Rookie USA Voucher for R2500

    10 September 2019

    Rookie USA now has an awesome online store – check out their website, tell my your favourite item and you could WIN!!

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  • Our DIY Harry Potter Party

    8 August 2019
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  • CURRENTLY – We’re Home, Now What?

    14 May 2019

    After 299 days on the road we hit the last bit of tar on the way home to Cape Town. Is it beyond annoying that it’s 299 days and not…

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  • Optimus Goes Rouge In Roma, Lesotho

    3 May 2019

    You know, I used to think that I had lived through terrifying experiences. Seeing a massive spider in the shower, having a baby deliver herself without me realising it and…

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  • Add Malealea To Your Lesotho Bucket List

    25 March 2019
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  • Hello Lesotho! Our First Border Crossing And Stay In Mohales Hoek

    7 March 2019

    Oh hello there.  It’s been a while hasn’t it.  If you haven’t been following along with us on our social media (mainly Facebook or Instagram) pages then you probably think…

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  • Lady Grey – A Night In The Middle Of Nowhere

    14 November 2018

    You know what most people think of when they go on road trips?  The chilly darkness of the early mornings as they get up really early, pack their car and…

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  • Things I Have Learned Since Leaving The City And Making A Van My Home

    12 November 2018
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  • Maclear – A Farm Stop On The Way To Lesotho

    9 November 2018

    It was really great to be on the move again.  Coffee Bay was amazing but I think 5 days is the maximum we should spend in a place.  It’s enough…

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  • Coffee Bay – A Cultural Tour

    1 November 2018

    One of the most memorable days of our time in Coffee Bay was our walk through the villages surrounding the town.  After doing the hike to The Hole In The…

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  • Life In The Van – Captured By Zorann Elizabeth #Vanlife

    31 October 2018
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  • Optimus – Interior Reveal of our 1974 VW Jurgens Campervan (Finally)

    30 October 2018

    I know, I know.  We’ve lived in this thing for 4 months, how dare I only show you the inside of the van now? Well, I probably don’t have to…

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  • Coffee Bay – A Long (But Breathtaking) 10km Hike To The Hole In The Wall

    23 October 2018

    Getting to Coffee Bay was such a flipping mission.  But breaking down in the dark and then waking up in the loveliest little rural town has its benefits.  You want to make…

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  • Coffee Bay – Our First Breakdown And Other Things

    13 October 2018
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  • Morgan’s Bay – An Eastern Cape Gem

    9 October 2018

    I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt, that the beaches of the Eastern Cape are some of the most beautiful I have ever seen.  Like, it’s not…

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  • We’ve Lived In A Van For 100 Days Today

    8 October 2018

    Doing something for an extended period of time has never really been my thing.  I fail at all those internet challenges there are out there.  You know what I’m talking…

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  • Back To The Coast – East London

    4 October 2018
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  • Hogsback – An Absolute Favourite, Can I Move Here Please?!

    2 October 2018

    It’s not often that Seth and I drive into a new town and have the same thoughts about it.  Either I don’t like it for some reason (too humid, lacking…

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  • Riebeek East – Lost In Time

    20 September 2018

    RIEBEEK EAST, SOUTH AFRICA OK, I have to admit something…  Before heading out on this adventure I didn’t know that Riebeek East existed.  I just didn’t.  Maybe it’s Cape Town…

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  • Homeschool – Why? What? How? Tell Us Everything

    14 September 2018
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  • VANLIFE – How To Achieve Work Life Balance

    13 September 2018

    A question I get asked regularly is how we achieve the work vs life balance and hot damn, it’s going to take me a minute to answer that one.  Mostly…

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  • Marriage In The Van – Better or Worse?

    12 September 2018

    Even though I really enjoy writing about all the places and the things we got up to while we were there, it doesn’t have the real release that blogging should…

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  • The Year Long ALFREENO’S Adventure Begins…

    11 September 2018
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  • Addo – Addo Elephant Park (We Saw LIONS)

    5 September 2018

    How’s this for ignorant…  Before actually arriving at Addo Elephant Park I had absolutely no idea that there was other wildlife there, you know aside from elephants.  Like obvs they’d…

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  • Port Elizabeth – The Plantation

    30 August 2018

    There’s many things that I have shared on this blog, or maybe over shared. Definitely over shared. But something you may not know about me yet, is that my Dad…

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  • Jeffrey’s Bay – We Hit The Eastern Cape

    29 August 2018
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  • 50 Days On The Road – Loving It Or Hating It?

    28 August 2018

    Every night I do this thing where I update my Instagram (and Facebook) with a new post of what we did that day.  Sometimes it’s really difficult to select just…

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  • What Do I Miss Now That We Live In A Van?

    10 August 2018

    I think I just need to get this post out of my system.  Like when you have a shoelace that somehow got stuck under a toe in your Converse.  It’s…

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  • Plettenberg Bay – Kyla’s Birthday On The Road

    7 August 2018
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  • Oudtshoorn – A Quick Inland Stop

    6 August 2018

    There are so many places in South Africa, so how do you choose where to go when you’re planning to be on the road for a year?  Or maybe you’re…

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  • Glentana – A Magnificent Gem

    2 August 2018

    When we worked out our provisional itinerary before setting out on this adventure, we were totally ignorant of what South Africa had to offer.  Funnily enough I even had to…

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  • Mossel Bay – De Bakke Santos

    1 August 2018
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  • Travelling Around South Africa For A Year – Why Two Cars?

    31 July 2018

    The other day we were moving towns and as we were driving I noticed that we started going really, really slowly.  Like crazy slow.  Which is much slower than the…

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  • Clothes In The Wild

    26 July 2018

    I’ve been sitting here, at our pop up table during the day/bed base at night, staring at my screen for the last 10 minutes.  Next to me Kyla is finishing…

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After living a very normal suburban life we packed up everything to live in a VW van for a year as a family of 5. Now that we have traveled our beautiful country we are back to normal but trying to remember what it was like to live with less, spend time in nature and build on our family bonds. Join us on the journey.

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