The loniest road in America
The past few days we have been driving the loniest road of America. This is the US50 that runs from Sacramento, California to Ocean City, Maryland and is called the loniest road since 1986 by Life Magazine and later on used by Nevada as marketing slogan. I must say that this road is…
The western route south from Ethiopia, Omorate to Sibioli National Park Kenya, via Lake Turkana
We found an alternative tar or asphalt road to the busy tourist road (route 6) running from Addis to the Moyale Kenya border via Dila. We decided not to take this road as I had experienced it 5 years ago … Continue reading →
Addis Ababa heaven
We were so tired when we finally reached Addis Ababa on the 20th April. The journey from Axum had been 1000km of really bad roads, high mountain passes, dangerous hairpin bends and people and animals all over the road and … Continue reading →
Nechisar National Park, Ethiopia
Nechisar National Park One of the most unusual parks I’ve been in. It was not too expensive to enter and we found it to be a perfect test before entering the south bound Turkana track with all its river crossings, … Continue reading →
Bilene & Xai-Xai
It took us 5 hours to drive the 196km to Bilene. Luckily we started early. T4A showed Palmeiras as a campsite and we decided to try it. On our way I found out that my Kindle can help tremendously with … Continue reading →
Heading east towards the coast
The length of this dam wall that is also the crossing towards the main road to the coast, is 5km and they are busy lengthening it! Crossing the Massingir Dam wall The Olifants river that feeds the dam and the … Continue reading →
Goodbye South Africa Hola Mozambique
We left Letaba camp a bit sad because we had to say goodbye to new friends. On the other hand we were fairly excited about finally crossing the border into Mozambique. Initially, after phoning the children for the last time, … Continue reading →
Machu Mission
The journey to the ancient Inca citadel that is Machu Picchu is very easy if your wallet knows no restraint. The real challenge is to get to Machu Picchu without having your wallet or credit card raped. We spoke to … Continue reading →
San Diego to Monterey via Hollywood LA
We left San Diego Monday morning and made our way up a very busy Highway 101 to Los Angeles, a quick stop in Hollywood to get a photo of the iconic sign before heading to Malibu Creek National Park for a nights camping. A couple of things struck me, first Hollywood wasn’t as glamorous as I…
The tug of normalcy
It’s been an interesting week for us. The sunshine that welcomed us back to the northwest was simply too good to hold true for long. Last week it was replaced by somewhat a reminder of portland weather- grey and overcast all week. Now it’s just plain cold on top of…