S1 - Ep 383 - Home - Drive-Throughs of New and Familiar Places!
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2023
- As our incredible 20th trip came to an end, we embarked on the journey back home from Kwazulu-Natal, a region that had filled our days with awe and adventure for 10 unforgettable days. With nearly 1500 kilometres ahead, we split the return trip into two days, capturing picturesque drive-throughs of both new and familiar places along the way. Our overnight stay in Colesberg marked a peaceful pause before we eagerly tackled the remaining stretch of road, brimming with excitement and fond memories. We sincerely hope you've enjoyed sharing this epic journey with us as much as we cherished experiencing it. #DustBugs #adventuretravel #southafrica #southafricavlog #travelongravel #kwazulunatal #strand #colesberg
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It was an epic trip Curis that is for sure. thank you for this wonderful trip down memoriy lane for me. And yes the blood river memorial was a big wow for me as well. I really enjoyed this trip, not that the others are not good as well, but ...........ugh you guys!!!!!!!!!!! thank you. Cant wait to see where to next??????????
As always, we appreciate you being on our backseat on every leg of every trip. 🚙😁 I look forward to showing you this afternoon where we went next and I hope you enjoy this one just as much! 🤩 It was difficult to single out a highlight on our KZN trip, but the fact that we thought we weren't going to be able to visit the Blood River Battlesite and being able to in the end, made the experience all the more special. It was fantastic to visit KZN again! 😍
My wife and I enjoy all your travel videos. One of the highlights of this trip was blood river. Truly amazing! Thank you so very much.👏👏👏👍❤️🙏🙏
Hi you two! How wonderful that you could gather 1500km of our beautiful country with blue skies, klipkoppies, mountains around and on the horizon, pretty towns with beautiful white buildings, all in 50 minutes! Pap en vleis, cuppas and mouth watering sandwiches! Wow!
Thank you for this great end to a tour around some of the most fascinating places in our country. Please take a good, long rest. I'll be patient while waiting to be picked up next time.
Keep safe!
And there I was thinking that I could fit it all into one, uninterrupted stint! 🤪 It was a beautiful drive and we loved the scenery and glimpses of towns along the way. The beauty of this country of ours never fails to astound, even next to the N1 highway. 🇿🇦🛣️ Thank you for joining us on our trip to KZN, it was awesome! We did take a long rest and are now ready to share the next one with you! So I'll pick you up again tomorrow. 🚙😁
Home sweet home 🏡! Wow! That's an odyssey! from one occean to other 🌊 , mountains & valleys, forests and deserts!
Indeed! From the Indian to the Atlantic and a whole lot in-between! 🚙🌊 It was fantastic and all the more so because you joined us. Thank you for watching! 👌🏻
We couldn't wait till tonight. Just had to watch it immediately. This was a great idea to share your "back home" trip with us. Brought many memories also as we know so many stops along the way. Loved that you took us into Richmond. We always just stop to fill up and buy something to eat and then off we go again. We will remember that nice "plaaskombuis" whenever we pass there again.
You must do this again when you travel so far!
I actually thought of you as we were driving past Bloem, I have many, many fond memories of that city. 😍 I'm not surprised that you know many of the towns we drove through or past. 😎 It's always cool to be in the Free State, albeit briefly. Do yourself a favour and plan to either overnight in Richmond or set aside an hour or two for a little munchbreak and some exploring. It's a fabulous place and we can't believe we never went into the town all these years. 🤷🏻♂️ I'm so glad you enjoyed the drive home with us, it was entertaining for us to film along the way. 🚙🛣️
See this beautiful country. Thankyou DustBugs!
You two are stars. Your humour, your knowledge and your stamina is amazing. Thank you for the entertainment which cannot be beaten for being unique in beautiful South Africa. Look after yourselves.
Wow, thank you for your very kind words! 🚙😊 I'm so happy to hear that our travels provide you with so much enjoyment. 😍🇿🇦 We look forward to sharing many more places and giggles with you. 🤩
Thanks you two for yet another great trip, as always! On that last stretch of your journey, by Beaufort West when you remark that this juncture is always where you know you are now homeward bound, made me think of how travel eventually breeds a longing for home and family. At home, we dream of faraway, and faraway we dream of home! Already looking forward to your future wanderings...
So true! As wonderful as travelling always will be, it's just as wonderful arriving back to the familiar place we call home. 😍🏡 Somehow, at Beaufort West, we always know it's only about five hours from home and it seems closer to us once we've passed that point. I think it goes back to our younger days when we used to tackle the 2000 / 1500km Limpopo / Gauteng to Western Cape stretch quite regularly, as if it were nothing. Thank you for joining us as we explored parts of KZN, it was a memorable trip for us. 🚙🤩 We're ready to share our next trip with you and I hope you enjoy that one just as much.
Lekker trip home! You've made me miss pap 'n vleis and my favourite, boerewors. Hopefully, you keep producing videos.
I'm glad you took the long drive home with us, thank you! 🚙😁 In the end, we were so grateful that pap-en-vleis was all we could find that evening. It was super good for a meal bought at a filling station shop. I also love pap and sausage, but that meat went down a treat that night! 🍛 We're fresh back from our next trip and the first episode will be uploaded this afternoon. I hope you enjoy this series too! 🤩
Curtis - it sounds like you and I are roughly the same age ( 21 years old) my wife and I drive the N 3 and N 1 to CT and then N2 to George every 3 months, We too used to travel from home to CT non stop - since we started watching your videos we now stop off at all these historical small towns. All I can say is a B I G T H A N K Y O U to you both. You inspired us.
Greetings young man! 😎Wowzer, you drive long distances and on such a regular basis! 😳 I love driving long distance, there's just something about the open road that makes one look at the world through different eyes! 🚙🛣️ Thank you for your kind words, we're always happy to have you on board as we explore another cool place. It's incredible what one finds if one just takes an hour or two off the main road, but you know all of that! 🤩 Safe travels to you both!
Thanks guys for all the town's I traveled to with you guys really appreciate it and happy to hear that you guys really enjoyed yourselves on your travels to Durban and back home safe God's richest blessings upon yll always ❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
We had a fantastic time in KZN and we appreciate you always being on our backseat, thank you! 🚙😍 Durban is a special city and it was good seeing it again. 🤩 We look forward to you joining us on our next trip!
Thank you for this and all videos past and yet to come! Love your channel♥️♥️
What a great idea to share your return trip home. Nearly 5000 km's and the Kwiddie never missed a beat. Close shave nearly missing out on that petrol. Sometimes it pays to carry a can of petrol in your boot. It is always a good feeling one gets when you are finally heading back home again. After all "Home is where the heart is ". Certainly enjoyed this journey and look forward to some more. I can just taste that lekker garlic droewors .The last time I ate a Wimpy burger was in George , and I was in Primary school in the 1960's. Just a quick joke that is often told here in NZ. I know that you will like it as you guys often make this saying on your trips. What do you call a deer with no eyes ? No idea.😂
Yup, we encounter many deers with no eyes along the road, on every trip! 🤣🦌 I'm glad you enjoyed this trip back home, it was a long stretch that's for sure. And always good to arrive back home! 😍🏡 The Kwiddie's boot is tiny and packed to the brim with stuff we don't want on the backseat, so there is no space for a jerrycan and I'm not happy with one inside the cabin, so I'll just continue filling up in almost every town, that works just fine for us. 🚙⛽ The garlic droëwors wasn't quite as dry as Sonia likes it, but the taste was good. 👍🏻 I look forward to sharing our next trip with you, we're fresh back and hard at work editing.
I really enjoyed this video. Richmond is a beautiful town. Your breakfast looked delicious. Thank you for a wonderful drive.
I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed the long drive home with the two of us! 🚙🛣️ Breakfast was indeed delicious and it was great to see Richmond again! 😁🍳
Hi Curtis and Sonja thank you for the emazing trip that had. I was till 1980 in Ladysmith High school. But thank you to see all the places so far. Can't wait for the next one.
Ladysmith is a very big and busy place, we were quite surprised as we drove through it! 🚙😳 I imagine it looks completely now, compared to back in 1980. Thank you for joining us as we visited KZN this time around. We look forward to sharing the next trip with you. 😁
Thank you. Will enjoy so much!!!!!!!
Thank-you for taking us with on your adventures, the highlight of the trip was seeing Umhlanga in its almost totally brand new form, hearing that Sonia also holidayed at the Umhlanga Sands Hotel, Kloof was amazing, St Lucia incredible, Paulpietersburg and Natal Spa bought back memories, Vryheid interesting, Dundee and the Battlefields as incredible and the Drive Home, We are so glad that Colesburg could host you and seeing the Karoo in bloom ...the towns of Beaufort West, Laingsburg, Richmond...we have visited them with you and have fond memories...there's no place like home and the KZN South Coast 😀 😊
I'm so glad you enjoyed the places we got to see in KZN! 🚙🤩 So you were also a visitor at Umhlanga Sands! 🏨 It was an intense and busy trip for us, but we loved it and it was so good to be in the province again. Not a day goes by that Sonia doesn't talk about some place we visited in KZN and of course the South Coast will always be the dearest to her heart. ❤️ There is indeed no place like home and it's always great to walk through the front door again! I hope you'll join us again on our next trip!
So enjoyed the trip home with you, thanks for the ride.
I'm very happy to hear that, thank you for your company! 🚙👌🏻 It was a long one this time around, but we had such fun along the way.
First to comment 😁...You showed us the Kzn we never knew we had.
from the South coast to bloodriver Dundee youve done us proud.
Much love💖
You're so kind, thank you! 🚙😊 We saw a side of KZN we never even knew existed and were just too happy to share it with folks like you. You're privileged to live in a very beautiful part of your province and it's awesome that you're so passionate about your town. Keep doing what you're doing! 😍
Thanks
Anytime! 🚙😁
Hi Curtis & Sonja, can see you're both happy to be back @ home for a while. May not be real time that we're but for us oldies it is real time. 😊. Very big thanks & so so happy you've arrived home safely. It has truly been an awesome trip 🚙🥰
Thank you for joining us on every leg of this awesome trip, it was as awesome to have you along. 👌🏻We're always happy to be back home. As much as we love every single moment on the road, the familiarity of everything at home is wonderful to come back home to every time. 😍🏡 When we travelled doesn't really matter, because our videos are never more than six weeks old, so always recent. We look forward to sharing many more trips with you.
Aii hoe verlang ek nou - worked from Highflats to Vryheid and Bethlehem as a Agricultural advisor !! Love the country and its people!! My sister is in Greyton and my dear mum and brother are in Cape Town. Thank you kindly for the visuals it means a lot to me so far away in NZ! Happy and safe travels Curtis & Sonia!!
I'm glad that we could show you some of the beauty in the area that you know so well. 😍🇿🇦 That homesick feeling I know all too well. I wasn't able to control mine and that is what eventually made us return to SA after a number of years in the US. Thank you for watching our videos! 🚙😁
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That was a mammoth undertaking - thank you for braving the roads for us!
Of course, anytime! 🚙😁 I hope you're doing well and that you enjoyed KZN with us. We look forward to having you on the road with us again on our next trip!
I could sense an extra chirpy mood seeing that you’re going home. Great trip but I really enjoyed the stretch back home through all the familiar places - last seen 22 years ago. (Before moving to Perth Australia)
Yes, we're always happy to be heading home after a few days on the road! 😍🏡 And I love the long road, so another reason for the extra chirpiness. 🤣 I'm glad you enjoyed the trip back home and that we could remind you of some of your own good times. Thank you for watching ours from so far away! 🚙👌🏻
Absolutely wonderful. Thank you for all the effort and wonderful journeys!!!!
I'm glad you enjoyed our KZN trip, thank you for accompanying us! 🚙👍🏻
Best road to stick to, the straight and narrow.🙃😂🙏
Straight is good, narrow not always for Sonia! 🚙😁
loved it
Glad to hear it, thank you! 👌🏻
Glad You Had a Safe Trip back home!!
Thank you! It was a long one this time around. 🚙😁
I lived in Bloemfontein for 33 years but I am living in the Strand in the Cape now. I know the Strand well because when I was small I still lived in Johannesburg and I went to the Strand for the December holidays to visit my grandfather and grandmother. My grandfather and grandmother lived in the Strand. My grandfather grew up in the Strand and he worked on the Railways at Touws River and then they moved to Worcester where he retired and went on pension. After my grandfather retired he and my grandmother moved back to the Strand. My grandfather is buried in the Strand. My late father also worked on the Railways and he was a railway engineer.
Wow, thank you for taking me along with you on this amazing trip. I love out beautiful country! ❤️ All the travelling must make you so tired, it's so far to travel. I appreciate that fact that you travelled by car from the Strand to KZN. You could have flown to KZN and rented a car there, but you chose to show us all. Thank you very very much! 😊❤
We actually wanted to fly into Durban, but we travel with so much stuff, that it's not really practical. We're trying to figure out if we can narrow the essentials list down to make flying both worthwhile and comfortable for us. 🤷🏻♂️🚙✈️ I'm happy to hear you enjoyed our trip through parts of KZN, we certainly had loads of fun and were happy to share it with folks like you who also enjoy travelling. Thanks for watching! 👌🏻
Wow what an insane trip! You already made me discover that gorgeous Kwazulu-Natal region, with amazing destinations, cities and towns ; I absolutely didn't know about this part of South Africa until I see your travel videos there. Didn't expect this much 'tropicality' climate-wise there, but this was fully different from what we usually see from this country and I liked it a lot!
And then, the ice on the cake was this epic trip all the way back in Western Cape from KZN, meaning you almost crossed through the entire width of South Africa, that's absolutely fantastic! As usual, the landscapes, the roads, the traffic... really spectacular! In addition, thanks for telling us about your daily life and the immense work you also put on posting these wonderful SA travel videos on RUclips! 🤝
Thank you for all! 💯
Thanks so much for this trip. I want to call it REWIND TRIP. I really appreciate your effort on this huge trip. It was clever to cover your trip back home. You can drop some droe wors here by me in Strand. Seat booked and reserved for the next one.
Ha! If you think there was even the tiniest piece of droëwors left by the time we arrived in Strand, you're dead wrong! My darling wife doesn't play around with droëwors! 🤣 Thank you for always watching and for being ready for pickup at the start of each episode, that means a lot to us. You'll understand the joyful feeling we experience every time when we arrive back in our hometown! 😍 We'll pick you up again tomorrow afternoon, be ready! 🚙😁
I am enjoying this channel so much, You just earned a subscriber
Great roadtrip, thank you Curtis and Sonia! Your humour entertained us all the way and made me eat a whole packet of cookies - wish it was rather a nice piece of biltong 😁
Thanks guys, have thoroughly enjoyed this journey with you. Looking forward with great anticipation to the next season.
Thank you! It was fantastic to have you along as we explored some of the towns in KZN we knew and more that we didn't. 🚙😁 We look forward to you hopping on board again tomorrow as our next series starts! 🤩
Thank you both for all the joy you bring.
Dank Curtis & Sonia, heel hartelijk dank voor deze prachtige reis door KZN ❤ 10 dagen maar liefst en wat een mooie avonturen hebben jullie ons gezamenlijk laten beleven. Van een verrassend groene en goed onderhouden kust route naar de binnenlanden met veel Voortrekker en Anglo-Zulu geschiedenis. En die Imperial Prince en route 👑, Het was mij een waar genoegen om mee te reizen en weer zoveel nieuwe dingen gezien en geleerd te hebben. Ondertussen ga ik vanaf morgen weer zelf toeren door Frankrijk. Jullie weten, het kan zijn dat ik even niet of wat later reageer maar … mee blijf ik sowieso reizen, ook op jullie aankomende nieuwe avontuur 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦💓
It was the biggest pleasure to visit KZN and to share the places we visited with you. 🚙😍 Thank you for always watching, although you're sometimes on your own travels. We so appreciate that. I will always respond to comments on our most recent video, but you may just see a ❤️ if you comment on an older video. I'm not getting much work done with all the comments, but it's a part of our channel which I really enjoy very much. Have a fabulous trip to France, I have no doubt that you'll immerse yourself in centuries-old history there! 🇫🇷🏛️ Safe travels!
That brought back so many memories of our last trip. Wonderful, friendly conversations and a stunning trip. Thank you.
Thank you for coming along on every leg of this fantastic KZN trip. As always, we enjoyed your company so much! 🚙😁 Good memories of a trip are just the best. We daydream quite a bit, thinking of places we've been to. 💭
Greetings from NZ. Thank you for the 11 day trip, covering parts of SA I have never visited. A descendant of one of the original 1820 settlers, left in 1965, but still feel SAfrican in my bones! So I really appreciate your channel, thanks so much.
GO THE BOKS! From Kiwi Jim.
Thank you for this wonderful trip As two golden oldies not so easy ti get around anymore
You're always very welcome on our virtual backseat and we look forward to taking you to many more places. 🚙🤩 Thank you for watching our travels through the great province of KZN!
Amazing vlog, the scenery was awesome...love your style of vlogs, i have a chuckle at the locals walking on the roads..😊😊😊😊
Happy to hear you enjoyed the trip back home. There were indeed some beautiful nature scenes along the way and we always love those! 🌼⛰️ We always look for things along the road to amuse us and they are never in short supply! 🚙🤣
The amount of times I've passed through Harrismith to either get to Durban, Clarens, Fouriesburg or Ficksburg, I've actually lost count. All roads leading to and from Verkeerdevlei are brilliant, so the R68.50 toll is certainly worth it. I almost tried traveling from Oudtshoorn through to Joburg, I got to Bloemfontein and decided to stop and book into accommodation. The drive between Bloemfontein and Joburg is crazy long...5 hours...I went on a round trip to Graaff-Reinet last year, and the last leg between Bloemfontein and Joburg was exhasting...
As long as the condition of the roads reflect the toll I'm paying, all is good with the world. 😁🛣️ I was really keen on driving all the way through, but it was just too far for the late start we got that day.
@@DustBugsTravel I don't mind traveling long distances in a day, as long there's interesting things to see along the way, it distracts from the evident long drive. Oddly the drive back always seems to be the long and boring, while the drive away is fun and eventful...lol
Great following you on your amazing journey.
Watched from New Zealand, very home sick 😢
However, will be there soon to visit 🇿🇦✈️. Safe travels to you both xx
You must be counting the days until you depart for our beautiful shores. 😍🇿🇦 I'm always happy when folks abroad watch our videos and are reminded of good and happy times they spent here. I wish you the most fantastic trip and safe travels!
Just finished eating my tea here in the UK. Now to stream this episode to my TV, put my feet up and enjoy seeing you both on your travels. Thank you both as always. Kindest regards from a the saffa abroad aka Tim
I hope your tea was scrumptuous! 🍲 Thank you for coming along to KZN with us, it was a memorable trip which we were happy to share with you! I hope you enjoyed the long drive home! 🚙🏡
Hi guys thanks for the road trip back to Strand I must say Curtis you definitely get some miles under your belt blows my mind the whole trip was over 4000 km you opened up lots of places I've never heard of and some that brought back so many memories for me as someone who loves military history I certainly got my share the battle field of blood river and tugala stood out to me. Loved your memories of Bloemfontein and Sonias fathers birth place. As I always say love the banter and the laughter. The truck drivers camaraderie so real. One day you'll have to have a full English with black pudding lol I must say Sonias laughter is infectious and always cheers me up ..this road trip reminds me of some of the great trips I've been able to do .on a trip to the Insel usadom on the baltic from Kent my pal and I had got about 50 miles into Germany went to fill up and we were driving a old car that used leaded petrol when we got to the petrol station it had only unleaded petrol we asked the guy he said nix blie no leaded in Germany so we had to drive back to the Netherlands to get some we managed to get to Berlin almost empty and I asked if I could some how get leaded petrol the guy says no problem and said buy this plastic bottle and fill up with unleaded and put some liquid from the bottle and put some lead back in you can imagine the laughter. Thanks for taking me along cheerio till the next one
I love driving long distance, so the miles literally fly by for me! 🚙🛣️ It was actually hard to believe that this was our 20th trip already! I'm glad that we could give you a healthy dose of military history and show you some battlefields too, those were super interesting to us as well. A full English I'll have any day of the week, but I have a way to go before I'll agree to black pudding. I know I shouldn't knock it because I haven't tried it, but the thought. Eek! 😨 Wowzer, that story of yours about the unleaded and the leaded petrol could've turned out very differently! ⛽ A road trip without laughter is just no fun at all, so if you ever need cheering up, we'll be right here waiting for you! Thanks for coming to KZN with us! 👌🏻😍
Hi Curtis Sonia and Dusty, thanks for a truly royal journey, travelling through kingdom of KZN and seeing that, the car can actually go further north than Durban, loved it all. ❤❤ As always your knowledge of the many towns and cities, with historical value, never ceases to amaze me, safe travels always ❤
Thank you for including Dusty, he is our constant companion and keeps an eye on the road behind us. 😍🧸 I'm so glad that you enjoyed our trip to KZN. We wanted to visit as many places as possible along the coastline and every single one we got to see, was fabulous! We learnt so much about the history of some of these places and we were happy to share it with you. 🚙🏛️
Thank you for sharing, glad the camera wasn't being held out the window whilst filming 😂
There is a certain speed at which that is no longer possible! 🚙😳 I, as you know, am not the biggest fan of filming through a windshield. 🤷🏻♂️ Thank you for watching our trip home!
@@DustBugsTravel I love your videos and appreciate your content. It’s lovely to see our beautiful country 💛 you make me stress when you drive and handle the camera especially out the window 🤣
Awesome trip.👋
Thank you so much for sharing your travels with us dust bugs, truly appreciate your dedication to the history hiding in our beautiful towns. Happy the explorers are back home all safe and sound. Can't wait for the next adventure ... 🐢🌳🦎
It was our pleasure sharing our KZN trip with you. 🚙🤩 History is one of the multitude of things that fascinate us and you're right, there is so much of it that we have absolutely have no idea about. We're back from our next trip and can't wait to share that one with you too. 😁
@@DustBugsTravel please, if at all possible, date your amazing visits for future traveling purposes, your foodie references and spots to overnight is coming in so handy, so many magical places to appreciate nature and what she has to offer ... 💚
This was such an interesting video, I traveled this road so many times and filled up at that exact Engen in Bethlehem. Great to see the old places again :)
I'm glad you took the trip back home with us. Good to know that you know the route we took so well. 👌🏻 I also know some of those towns we travelled through rather well, so seeing them, albeit fleetingly, brought back good memories. It sounds like it did the same for you. 🚙🛣️
Whenever you are in Reitz we must enjoy coffee.
The town my father-in-law saw light for the first time. ❤️ We've never been there.
What an incredible channel. Lived in some of these places. Presently living in Howick. I haven't seen any video on it yet. If you do Howick, please include Cedara Agricultural College (over 100 yrs old, some stunning buildngs. I work in the Library there and could probably give you some history). Brilliant videos.
You're going to have to start flying to the start of the journey, soon. (Maybe go explore the coast of Southern Mozambique one day? If that sounds like fun, I mean.) This latest journey was pretty epic.
It was actually our plan to fly to Durbs, but when we started making the list of essentials which we just couldn't leave behind, it was just not feasible. We'll still have to figure out how to tackle future trips far away from home. We have a few thoughts, but nothing final just yet. 🚙✈️🤷🏻♂️ I actually have close relatives in Inhambane, but we're still trying to work our way through SA before we'll decide where to next. The list of options is long! 😁 I'm glad you enjoyed our KZN trip, thanks for joining us and for sharing your thoughts in the comments. 👍🏻
Baie dankie vir die interesante program. Ons twee oud Soutpansberg seniors woon al die beste deel van drie dekades hier in Newmarket Ontario. Julle aanbieding bring baie ou en mooi herinneringe terug na ons. Ons sien uit na die volgende toer episodes.
Groete en ry veilig
Greetings to you in Canada! I'm so happy to hear that our videos remind you of good times, we like hearing that! 🚙😁 We look forward to sharing our next trip with you, starting tomorrow!
Your journey home makes me realise how small Wales is .
Yes, we sometimes think South Africa is a small country, but not when you have to do it by road! 🚙🇿🇦 A road trip through Wales sounds like a great experience. 🏴
You are welcome any time …. But remember the Welsh government have just imposed a 20mphlimit in towns !
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Hey Sonja, Curtis. Lovely to see you guys doing videos.. Rembering east London days(Melissa Chithray).My husband follows you guys and enjoy the travel videos.. Can't wait to get in touch again.❤
No way! 😁 So cool to hear from you, it's been forever! What a small world we live in. Please thank your husband for watching our videos, we're having great fun! 🚙😎
Hi Curtis I am a big fan of your travel videos. I am an ex KZN person now living in the Western Cape. Used to live in Gordon Bay but now living in Wellington. I don't know if you did a video on Wellington, it is a beautiful town. I live just below the Bains Kloof Pass.
Thank you, I'm very happy to hear you enjoy our videos. 🚙😁 We visited Wellington a few months after we started documenting our travels and uploaded two videos of our visit and stayover. You can check those out in Episodes 104 and 105. Our episodes were still very short back then and we didn't explore places in the detail we do in later videos. I hope you enjoy them all the same. Bainskloof Pass was closed on both trips we attempted to drive that road, which I believe is a very scenic one. 😍⛰️
@@DustBugsTravel Bains Kloof Pass is spectacular, there is a deep gorge on the side of the road with a river running through, not for the faint hearted. You should do a video on that.
Enjoyed watching your KZN adventure. My husband and I lived in the Strand for a short time and then moved to Edgemead. Our son was born at Somerset West med-clinic.
So you know our hometown and area very well then! 😍 Thank you for watching our KZN trip, it was great fun having you on board! We hope you'll join us on the next one too! 🚙😁
@@DustBugsTravel we will!
I really enjoyed the trip home. I wont be commenting for a while as i just had a shoulder operation just now and one finger typing with the left hand is not nice. but i am still watching every show
Ouch! 😖 That sounds super painful! A shoulder is one of those body parts one takes for granted until you can't use it properly. We hope the pain is not too severe and we wish you the speediest of recoveries. 💪🏻 Thanks for driving home with us, let us know how you're doing as soon as you're able to type with both hands again. 🚙😊
Hi DustBugs, what are you utilising as navigation system for your trips, if not your cell phones?
We’ll soon be making our own “lang pad “ trip but haven’t settled on a device as yet.
Thanks for the video. Always exited to see what new adventures along the road we get to explore with you.
We don't make use of any GPS devices, other than our cellphones. Since we often drive in areas where there is no cell reception, I've come to rely on MAPS.ME quite a bit. It's an app which isn't dependent on cellphone reception. I've found that invaluable on our trips. 🚙 Thank you for driving home with us! 😁 Safe travels to you!
@@DustBugsTravel thank you for this invaluable tip. I will most certainly look into this app. 👍🏼
I was in the Army at Ladysmith 1987 and 1988
Cool! 😎 It seems a big and busy place now!
Is dit meer ekonomies om 'n voertuig te huur vir so 'n reis? Dankie vir saamreis.😊
I really don't know, I'm just not in the market to buy another vehicle and our own is too low and heavy to use on our travels. I love the fact that I can just have the rental vehicle cleaned and return it without having to worry about maintenance, services, repairs, tyres, etc. It works perfectly for us. 🚙👍🏻
You missed the smallest church
Oh, but we saw so many other small things! 🚙😁
So wat is julle volgende bestemming in SA ?
As usual, we"ll only let the cat out of the bag when the first episode is published. 🚙😁 You'll find out soon enough, tomorrow in fact. I hope you enjoy the next series.
I am sorry to have given you guys one or two thumbs down for the really uninteresting places but that is not your fault. You guys have given us a wonderful experience and I must thank you for that. We'll done. Sonya show yourself my dear , there is no reason to hide. Letssee your smile , crutch and all. Mazelov. 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you for watching our videos. 🚙 If giving us thumbs down makes you feel better, that's your decision. For us, every single place we get to visit is a thumbs up, several thumbs up in fact. 👍🏻👍🏻 Sonia isn't keen on being filmed. She'll decide when she's ready and, until then, I'll respect her decision. 🥰 It has absolutely nothing to do with hiding or the fact that she feels safer with a crutch on stairs or uneven surfaces while we're on the road and far away from medical facilities.
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In which year did you run the Platberg?
I'm almost positive it was 1979. 🏃🏻♂️
R55 at Tugela east toll plaza...and the road doesnt look like it is getting the money spent on it. Aha! Eastern Free State! So beautiful. Another of my very favourites. Had a few wonderful holidays at Golden Gate. You will definitely have to come back to visit. I have been to Verkeerdevlei! But we couldnt find anything wrong with it. So glad you stayed over in Colesberg. I was a bit worried about you guys driving straight through. My dad always carried a kannetjie petrol in the boot for emergency, I can still see it, an old square red container. Diesel? Yeah, see! One gets tired and makes mistakes. Good on you for staying over. Merino Inn was always our stay over. But back in the 70s and 80s there wasnt a lot of choice. Looks a charming little place you stayed in. Just that kannetjie Doom makes wonder!🪳🪳🪳Hopefully not. Love the donkey! Those stripes represent the Cross. Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey shortly before He was crucified. When my brother and I were kids we had a giggle over Coleskop motors! I read it as Cole skop motors! And made up a story about this huge guy (like Desperate Dan) (Oh! Google it!) who went around kicking cars! Karoovlaktes! Beautiful!!! Land van ruimte! Hier kan n mens asem haal! I agree. Richmond is madly beautiful, I would go there just sketch and paint. What an amazing breakfast! That will keep you going the whole day! Eveready battery bunny, eat your heart out! You lose to the Fat muis!Now that is a meneer of a cactus! Grow some of those along your wall and no one is gonna climb over! And I see Skoonma se stoel there also! Oh, thanks for the please-explain, but I really do understand your position. Oh, I am lusting after that vlakoek! Forever forbidden to me as a fat person! Hope you dont mind me being so chatty! But I feel we are ❤❤❤❤old friends already!
I realised that driving straight through would be irresponsible of me and in the end, I was relieved to saddle off at Colesberg for the evening. I've often considered taking a jerry can with an emergency supply of fuel along on our travels, but there is no space in the boot and, with the bumpy roads we travel on, I would just not feel comfortable with it in the car. From there, developed the MO of filling up at almost every town, just to be safe with the little fuel tank on the Kwiddie. I don't even want to think what would've happened if I had diesel put into the car. 🚙⛽😨 Sonia says I must tell you the vlakoek was out-of-this-world and a slice of a little something-something every now and again will not cause you any harm. 🍰😁 I never mind you being chatty, I always enjoy reading your comments.
Safe traveling, please not all the way in one go.🙃🙏🙏🙏🤗🤗🤍
Nope, I eventually realised it was just too far for that! 🚙😁
Watching from Aussie - gorgeous to see “home” - left in 2001 and am going home for my first visit next month - I am a Capetonian by birth - going to see brothers in Maritzburg and son in law and family in Joburg - just a month trip - can’t wait! Thank you for your fab posts👍🤩
You must be super excited for your upcoming trip! 🇿🇦😍 It's certainly been a very long time. Thank you for travelling with us and safe travels to you! ✈️
Thank you both and God bless you🙏❤️
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