Overland with Kids

Jessica has started knitting a scarf for one of the Expedition bears and AJ received a book as a gift for his 4th birthday called ‘It’s a George Thing!’ - a duplicate of a book we already have. AJ has decided to donate our original version which is in as ‘new’ condition that we bought [...]

We have been struggling to find geographical resources for our children and on looking at the RGS website www.rgs.org and wanting to eagerly find some colourful, bright and zany information from this wonderful organisation are instead left wondering ‘why’ there isn’t a web resource section dedicated to children aimed at e.g. age 5 - 11 [...]

Hello and a big welcome to ‘Owk’ and ‘Bonzo’, our two ’Expedition’ teddy bears who have just joined us. We have just added a new Fundraising and Volunteering page to our site and are hoping the bears will become a fundamental part of our fund-raising plans. You can find out a little bit more information about the bears [...]

Friends, Fellow Travellers and Hints and Tips
We have updated the Hints and Tips Section with photos and information provided by acquaintances and we have been in touch with Ollie at JollyFollies (www.jollyfollies.com) to compare notes about visas, roof tents, trailers, laptops etc. It’s great to speak to people on the same plain (makes you feel sane [...]

Gypsy Caravan
Our Jurgens Xplorer duly arrived last week and is holding up well under the British weather. We are really pleased with it though the roof canvas is in a really shabby state of repair (still waterproof though) and could really do with being replaced. It has been raining heavily here these past few days [...]

Australian Visas
It doesn’t seem that long ago since we launched this website and there were well over 700! days to go - seemed like an eternity. Yet, here we are, down to under 595 days already. The reality is starting to kick-in, in terms of how much preparation we still have to do (even though it looks [...]

The following represents the view point of Loftus at Ingonyama Rentals in SA during July 2008 who has all 3 caravan brands as part of his rental fleet (both old and new). All have been rigorously used and tested in the SA terrains that these vans were inevitably built for.  Unsure what year/model/spec of each [...]

The following information has been taken from SA forums and websites we have been researching regarding the Xplorer.
Second-hand market
From what we have seen, there is an excellent market in South Africa for off road caravan/camper/van. Second hand versions in SA are currently circa anything between £5K -£7.5K upwards (the 3 main contenders being- B’rakhah, Commander [...]

We have just become the proud owners of a South African Off Road 1999 Jurgens Xplorer Camper. Following a B’rakhah Ingonyama (eBay) listing withdrawal disappointment and a Conqueror Commander ’seen in the flesh’ by Andrew at Billing, a kind acquaintance (Tony - thank you!), from Landyzone forum miraculously found this item on eBay  - being advertised as an ‘off road caravan’ - and put [...]

Well it had to happen! - As soon as the word ’roof tent’ was mentioned and we were almost close to a decision - a given decision in fact and just subject to which manufacturer - when a competitor to the much salivated over B’rakhah Igonyama raised it’s head at the Billing Exhibition today. Andrew decided to take himself off [...]