Category Archives: Africa
October 13th – Day 114
Saturday 13 october After 2 days of working on the car, we hit the road again! About 140km to go. It’s a project to get the Land Rover filled with all the stuff. But after sending the website updates with … Continue reading
October 11 and 12 – day 112 and 113
Thursday 11 and Friday 12 october Today is a day of working on the Ford, probably tomorrow also. This is because of the broken fusee yesterday, Dirk wants to check all the wheels, and change also the right fusee. The … Continue reading
October 10th – Day 111
Wednesday 10 october Today we are going to Makambako. We leave at 10.30 am. After a few kilometres, the model T runs not good, We assumed that the re-routing of the fuel line would solve this, but unfortunately it is … Continue reading
October 9th – Day 110
Tuesday 9 October Today is a rest day. No driving. This night we used the sleeping bags for the first time. That’s because it’s 1800m above sea level. Trudy does the laundry, the water is heated by a wood fire. … Continue reading
October 8th – day 109
Monday 8 october In the morning the sleeping matras is flat again, that’s a mission for in the afternoon! The promised shower is not working, a bucket of hot water will do. Today we have to drive about 200km’s , … Continue reading
October 7th- day 108
Sunday 7 october The sleepingbed, with no hole in it yesterday eve, was flat again this morning, damn… Even though was a nice quite night. After breakfast we putted the tents down, Inge suddenly sees a piece of wood jumping… … Continue reading
October 6th – Day 107
Saturday 06 October Today we head for Mikumi, about 120km Inge’s bead seams to be flat this night, with adding 3 sleepingbags it was ‘almost’ soft enough to sleep. Before breakfast we break up the camp. In the village … Continue reading
October 5 – day 106
We get up early today,6:30. Now that’s vacation.. The mascotte ‘Kees’ from the Beijing to Paris trip in 2007, is mounted at the dashboard. He’s ready for it! Packing the suitcases on the roof of the LandRover is like a … Continue reading
October 4 – day 105
Tonight at 2 o’clock the new team is arrived at the airport of Dar Es Salam. The plane arrived 45minutes early and after a call to Dirk and Trudy, 5min later they show up at the airport. Trudy is very … Continue reading
October 3 – day 104
October 3 Today is the last day of the team Renzo en Jon, we drive towardsDar es Salaamto pick up Dirk jan and Inge (who will arrive early in the morning) of the airport. It is a short trip from … Continue reading
