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Cape Town Road Trip, Klein Karoo, Karoo & Free State, January & February 2021

May 8, 2021 by 1 Comment
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Cape Town Road Trip, Klein Karoo, Karoo & Free State - January & February 2021

ROAD TRIP ON THE DIAGONAL – PHASE 5

HOME, VIA THE KLEIN KAROO, KAROO AND THE FREE STATE

It has taken me some time to pen the words to this, the final phase of our epic road trip from the Lowveld to Cape Town and back.

The reason is that I lost all the RAW images of the trip and subsequently my mojo for travel writing.  The suspected cause is badly co-ordinated interaction between a pet, myself, my laptop and its recycle bin.

Let me pontificate on this:

  • Ensure regular back-ups of treasured electronic data on your electronic devices;
  • Do not leave your laptop open, on, with a file selected, and leave the room;
  • Do not blindly empty your recycle bin every time you notice something in it, even if you are an OCD, minimalist, perfectionist Virgo.

Anyway, my mojo is back, and I’ll be recovering images from posts on Gesigsboek.  Please excuse the reduced quality of posted pics.

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Cape Town Road Trip, Mokala NP January 2021

March 7, 2021 by
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Limpopo to Mokala National Park - January 2021

ROAD TRIP ON THE DIAGONAL - PHASE 1 - LIMPOPO, GAUTENG AND NORTHERN CAPE

COVID-19 hit us in 2020 and hit hard, it did.  Picture the scene, three trips booked for 2020 ….. Marakele National Park, Kruger National Park, Namibia ….. but the virus said NEIN!  STAY AT HOME!  Which we did, stoically.

Luckily, we had only booked camping and accommodation in the South African National Parks by the time COVID-19 gave us the “nein”, so it all went into their credit system, taunting us from afar.

We started seeing light at the end of the tunnel at the start of December 2020, so we rolled out the map and opened the SANParks website.  So much to see!  Diaries were consulted and an end of January, beginning of February 2021 gap in Lecturing Twit’s calendar was found.  We proceeded to plan a doozy of a trip from Hoedspruit to Cape Town and back, trying to fit in visits to as many nature reserves/national parks as possible, the emphasis being on new experiences.  We begged room from friends, activated our credits and threw in two stays at CapeNature reserves, leaving us with a bill of around R800.00 and still some credit in the pot.  The diesel bill will have to take care of itself (yeah, right!).  We were ready, set to go!

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