African Tailblazers

Yes!!!   Finally we’ve done it!  Can you believe it!  After 6 years in the building, running out of money, other jobs getting in the way and nearly losing Pierre in March, we have almost completed out first trip in this behemoth of a motor home….and what a gal she is!  And what a trip we’ve had!

Firstly, a little background.  We were ready to sell our house  in  February with just the finishings on the inside of truck to complete when Pierre had a major stroke under anaesthetic and spe...

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One joyful Monday morning (4 weeks ago), Dad said "why don't you trim the cactus to burn off some of that excess energy" (Tigger has nothing on Josh! -Ed).  So I went off with a machete and a saw.  I took down one and then I cut it up into smaller pieces with the machete, it went through the branch quite easily!  I wanted to see if I could cut down another branch with it, but it wouldn't go through, so we tested out Isaac's mini chain saw (small hand held chain designed for  camping in the bu...
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Well a few things have happened in the last couple of weeks, one of the main things we did on the truck was to lay the electric cables within the framework......sounds easy? Huh!!! ....Well least so I thought!! We started by drilling holes in the framework, which wasn't quite as straight forward as it sounds!! The drill bits often have to be re-sharpened along the way! I discovered that threading these thick wires was not so easy as well. It's very hard to pass the corners in the ...
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So this week we completed the work on modifying the generator to fit in a compartment under the double bed at the back of the motorhome.  Originally we were going to fit it so that it was rigid in the back, with the exhaust running outside of the generator......however we made 3 fundamental mistakes....
1) We made the generator compartment too narrow to accomodate the exhaust comfortably....would result in too much heat.
2) We only had 0.5m overhang above the generator which would then make it ...
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