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Our Beautiful, New Bookshelf is complete

Debbie — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:31:22 +0000

When you are traveling renovations are a celebration of a beautiful symphony of time, money and resources playing together.. You can’t say, ” Hey, I think I will make a bookshelf today so I will go to my neighbourhood builders supply, hang out with some fellow builder amateurs and make my beautiful shelf.” No, it [...]

Freakstock…Again

Debbie — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:44:27 +0000

Well, once again we were to be found at The Freakstock Festival in Germany. We think this makes 9 years we have gone. We didn’t plan to come back for the very next year but here we are. First we had to reunite the family. Sam is back after about a year and a half [...]

A Family Friendly RV

Andrew — Fri, 27 May 2011 07:37:31 +0000

Most RV’s cater for a retired couple and their dog. We, on the other hand, are a family of 7 including Mum, her 6 foot 6 inch husband who needs a custom bed (that’s me) and five kids who all need beds and a place to stash their stuff. And who wants to travel around [...]

New Tank and happenings in Aourir

Debbie — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:00:02 +0000

Projected Lawrence of Arabia on the cement wall next to the truck on Friday night. Karim made a fire for us to cook our pizzas on a stick. Most of the people here at the garage came over to enjoy the movie with us. We all watched the movie until the power cut almost at [...]

Truck parts at Ait Melloul

Andrew — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:57:38 +0000

Andrew here. I spent yesterday scouring the truck yards at Ait Melloul, not far from the Agadir airport in Morocco. Its an amazing place. I didn’t buy anything but I might return for a bigger diesel tank. Its really worth a visit, even if you dont need any parts for your car or truck. What [...]

Problems with solar panels

Andrew — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:06:49 +0000

Solar problem in the Sahara?. Our brand new Tenesol TE2000 solar panels were underperforming, giving only 27.4 open circuit volts instead of 33, which wasn’t enough to charge up our system. Even in the Sahara where sun is never a scarce commodity. And solar is important to us because we keep Abigail’s insulin in our [...]

Solar and Angel Wings

Debbie — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:39:21 +0000

So, here we are. Still in Morocco, actually still at Hassan’s. Not the Aourir Hassan but the south of Gouilmim Hassan (sorry the spelling keeps changing but this is a multi-spelling town that I cant be bothered to have a consistency of influences for my spelling – by the way thank you for reading my [...]

Installing a pop-up roof on Maggie

Andrew — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:40:06 +0000

We have been waiting until we got to Africa to open up our roof so that we can sleep on top. Its been a little cramped with 9 people living in this truck and the roof top area will greatly increase the square footage by about two thirds. And not having air conditioning means [...]

Happy 2010! Here’s to a bog free year and olive oil

Debbie — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:41:36 +0000

Had a great New Years eve celebration at Paulo and Edna’s house. We have taken our minds off the difficulties of the last week. We had no vehicle for days as Serge’s car broke, days later Paulo and Edna’s van broke, days later we arrived in our truck and after picking up Petr from the [...]

A little family motorhome history

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:10:05 +0000

Reminiscing this morning. Here is a little of our bizarre family motorhome history. Sorry no old pictures to give you, only the ones you will create in your mind. 1 – 1985 – Me and Andrew met on a ship going around Central and South America. We were 2 people among 130 from 30+ countries. [...]