The Start

If you’re following the news feed on the right, you’ll know we’ve been on the road for 5 days now. Nothing too exciting so far – we spent Christmas with Louise’s family and the last few days with Andy’s. Having left our home at -10C, and seen -16.5C on Christmas day, it’s now completely thawed leaving nothing but large piles of snow dotted along the sides of roads.

Which is useful when we’re looking for somewhere to park:

Surf on Snow

This morning we’re off to drop off half our luggage and a few spare with the second surf, in the Scottish Borders. We’ll be out of blogging contact till the New Year, in a remote house with a few friends, so I’ll wish you all a happy Hogmanay and New Year now!

30 December 2010 | | 8 Comments »

Surfing Africa Theme Tune

As composed, sung and played by Chris, the next Garth Brooks.

Third time lucky – the first performance (2 weeks ago) had too much background noise, for the second (1 week ago) the cameraman forgot to turn on the mic.

23 December 2010 | | 4 Comments »

Roof tent and awning

Thanks to Aaron, who escaped from Guantanamo Bay for the day to help make this video.

18 December 2010 | | 6 Comments »

Surfingafrica Cake

Surfingafrica cake

14 December 2010 | | 4 Comments »

Snowy day + surf + tow line + snowboard

Seemed like a good idea:

Snowboarding behind the Surf

6 December 2010 | | 5 Comments »

Tech Weekend 2

Saggy back axle

New wheels, tyres, custom bumper, custom side steps/rock sliders, spotlights on bumper and roof, roofrack, roof tent, jerrycan carriers, double spare wheels. Needs front suspension levelled.

Close up of the bumper - note the rather nice stencil

Side view of the new bumper with CB aerial fitted


Driver's seat with new CB radio, temp & voltage monitor etc

Auxiliary fuel tank behind rear axle for 60 litres (>300 miles) additional range


The rock sliders aren’t obvious in the first picture, but they are the full length between the wheels, along the sill, and are fully jackable and hit-things-with-able, replacing the original aluminium side runners.

We still need to connect the plumbing for the auxiliary tank (the valve hadn’t arrived by last weekend), replace the bash plate, lower the front suspension which, at some point, has been raised slightly, and replace two slightly dodgy ball joints. All are very minor jobs. Other than that, this truck is ready to roll.

4 December 2010 | | 8 Comments »

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2 December 2010 | | No Comments »