family travel

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…

Look, we’re not total idiots.  When we bought a flipping old van from the 70’s (that still has its original air-cooled engine), we knew we were going to breakdown.  Heck,…

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…

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…

Ah homeschooling…  A topic that has always plagued the back recesses of my mind space. If you had spoken to me a year ago I would have told you (and…

It’s taken about 10 months of planning – buying Optimus, kitting him out with everything we need to live and sorting out an itinerary, but we are finally living our…

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…

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…

Isn’t it crazy that we stay in such a beautifully diverse country and yet we seem to stay in the same corner of it all the time? I mean Seth…

Here’s the thing about having an unusual family… And by unusual, I mean being a family that has more than the specified 2 children.  Not something unusual like singing on…

Oh hello!  Fancy meeting you here. You’ve forgotten who I am?  Me too.  They say I’ve just been wondering around aimlessly, answering to “Mom”, “Mommy” and occasionally “Mother” when I’m…