S1 - Ep 279 - Taking a Detour to our Hometown of Strand!
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Leaving Kenhardt, we were taking a detour through Putsonderwater to Prieska where we picked up a stool that we had forgotten there two days earlier. It's always a relief to retrieve forgotten items, we were happy to have the stool back. After picking it up, we bought some food and also made sure to fill up the car with fuel. We passed through many towns like Britstown, Victoria West, Beaufort West, Touws River, and many more on our way to our hometown of Strand. Despite the long distance and many stops along the way, we had fun and made it back home safely just before midnight. We were relieved to finally be back after such a long journey. Overall, it was a memorable trip filled with lots of sights and experiences. #DustBugs #adventuretravel #southafrica #southafricavlog #travelongravel #northerncape #strand
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Hello, the amount of videos i watched of the northern cape blew my mind... I cannot believe it all came and all went so very quickly... Definitely gonna go over them all again... Especially my hometown prieska.
You made it happen for me and i can't thank you enough really....thank you for this leg of the season... Rest well, stay safe, god bless.
Can't wait to start another new adventure together. 😇🙏
Yup, everytime we wake up on a trip Monday, we think there's a whole seven days ahead and, when we open our eyes again, it's Sunday and we have to head home. It's incredible how time flies when we're travelling and seeing all these amazing places, which we're so happy to have shared with you. 🚙🤩 Thank you for sharing your hometown with us. It was so special that we forgot something there just so that we could go back again! 😝 We've rested well for a little bit, but we're already back from our next trip, so I shall be picking you up tomorrow morning for the first instalment! 😁
@@DustBugsTravel super excited can't wait to see where to next. 😀
Home sweet home. Thank you and Sonia for a most enjoyable week, you guys make a week of travelling feels like a month long holiday for us. Now that my overlander is gone I will soon get in my little Corolla for some exploring. Looking forward for your next upload.
And I have not a single doubt that you'll happen upon the most amazing discoveries in your sedan! One doesn't need anything more! I wish you many, many safe and fun kilometres ahead! 🚙😁 Thank you for joining us on our trip through this section of the Northern Cape. We're back from our next trip already and the first instalment will be delivered tomorrow! 🤩
Thank you for a very nice journey. I am quite familiar with all the towns we drove through and it was so nice to be, once again, your passenger. You really render a good "service" and it is all for free! I really appreciate your efforts and enjoy every second of it.
I'm glad you enjoyed the drive home, you must've been just as tired as we were when we arrived back home! 😴 Thank you for visiting all these crazy beautiful places with us, we saw some pretty amazing things this time around and found beauty in the most unexpected places! So that's why we'll continue travelling and we'll pick you up again tomorrow for the next adventure! 🚙🤩
Thank-you for this series, it was incredibly enjoyable, filled with abundance of positive energy seeing the agricultural, commercial and mining activities in the towns. Kuruman's growth, Kathu's trees, cleanliness and size, Upington's growth and overall appearance are captivating not to mention Prieska, Kakamas and the other places, however Kenhardt really did it for me and others (if one goes by your views 11k at the time of writing), there was just something magical about that town and all the best to your host, I am glad to see that her entrepreneurship is paying off. I think that they're installing one of the largest solar farms just outside Kenhardt Rooidam was a surprise as was the drive to it. You're really highlighting the Kwids capabilities...hopefully they'll extend the sunvisors 😊. The Northern Cape through your lense is sure a magnificent place.
Thank you for joining us on this memorable trip through a new (to us) part of the Northern Cape! 🚙🤩 We were blown away by everything we saw and it was all so very unexpected. We love everything as you know and everything is beautiful to us, but we found in this part of the Northern Cape a green beauty which we never in a million years were expecting. The size of some of the towns was another thing which we were totally unaware of and it was a trip which made us see the Northern Cape in a completely different light. You haven't been around for a while, so I thought you may be off on travels of your own, but I'm glad to hear you enjoyed everything with us. You're right, from De Aar to Kenhardt was absolutely fantastic and these memories have been etched forever in our hearts and in our minds. Yup, the solar farm outside Kenhardt is also the reason for all the guesthouses in Kenhardt being fully-booked all the time, which is fantastic for the town. Our host found a little hole for us though and that, as well as her time, passion for Kenhardt and her knowledge were very much appreciated. 😍 Although the Kwid couldn't keep up on the road to Rooiberg Dam, it navigated pretty sandy spots where, if we weren't following our host, I would've turned back from, so I'm even more impressed by that little car, if that's at all possible. I'll cope with the sunvisors being on the short side! 🤣
That was a very long travelling day but so good to see some of the places we have traveled through years ago. Thank you.
It was indeed a very long day on the road, but we just love road trips, so it flew by. I think all of us have been through all of these places on the N1 countless times, but everytime is as exciting as the first for us! Thank you for joining us! 🛣️🚙
@@DustBugsTravel - Being in Australia for the last 20 years, watching your travels brings back extremely good memories (and discovering of towns I’ve never been to). So glad I discovered you - sharing your curiosity of searching for corner stones and history of places.
Sometimes I want to completely alone out there in the veld, just the insects and me. That was great and thank you both.
I hear you loud and clear! Silence is so underrated. It may not always sound like it, but we also spend long periods of time in silence and admiring the landscapes that rush by. Thank you for coming along, it was a fantastic trip! 🤩🚙
Nice trip I really enjoyed it, thanks guys.
Thank you, I'm so happy to hear you had a good time with us through this part of the Northern Cape. It was so much fun! 🤩🚙
When we were younger, my late husband and I loved travelling around to small towns. I am now 86 years old and I’m enjoying my “travelling” days again through Dustbugs Travel. Thank you very much.
Thank you for sharing those special memories with us! 😊👫🏻 We're just too happy to have you along for the ride on our roadtrips and I'm so glad to hear you enjoy them! 🤩🚙 A brand new adventure starts tomorrow with Episode 1 of our new series and we hope to see you on our virtual backseat again for more exciting discoveries!
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Pitty about Verneukpan . But there is always be a next time . Thank you for sharing your amazing travels. This last cruise was very enjoyable to watch.
There will most definitely be a next time for Verneukpan and I trust you'll be right there on our backseat enjoying it with us! 🚙😁 Thank you for accompanying us on our trip through this magical part of the Northern Cape. I'm glad you enjoyed the trip home, we just had to share that too! 🤣
Hi DustBugs! I enjoyed your excursions through the Western and Northern Cape tremendously. I am a 75year young South African pensioner residing in Dubai for the last 14 years. I was born and raised in the Transvaal Lowveldt. The Northern Cape has a magnetic pull on the core of my being, especially Prieska. I know the surrounding towns well, Kenhardt, Douglas, Hopetown as well as Groblershoop, Grootdrink, Kakamas and Kei. As a kid I visited my grandparents, John Joseph, and Ellen Benson, who lived in Prieska for many years. My mother is buried in Prieska. Your travel stories and comments (some quite funny!) has inspired me to revisit these old stomping grounds when I eventually return to South Africa. I wish you all the best and hope to see many more adventures from you DustBugs! Godspeed.
Thank you, your comment is so much appreciated! 🚙🤩 I'm happy to hear you enjoy travelling with us. You clearly know the Northern Cape very well and this was our first time to most of these places. We were absolutely blown away by all that we saw, it was incredible to discover this province more. Instead of barren and bare, which we also love by the way, we found an abundance of green, which was a rather big surprise to us! 🌳💚 Prieska is a wonderful town which we thoroughly enjoyed exploring. I hope that you will indeed be able to travel back to your home country in the not-too-distant future. It remains a fantastic place with such incredible beauty! Interesting to hear that you're from the Lowveld, Sonia was born in (the now) Limpopo, so the Bushveld is in her blood too! She gave me a transfusion the first time she took me to Kruger. I lost my heart there and I don't think I'll ever get it back. 🥰🇿🇦 We're back from our next trip to our next chosen destinations already and we look forward to sharing the first episode with you tomorrow!
Mr Benson, I feel for you. Your yearning is so obvious and I related at once with "excursions". So apt with our generation and school trips by bus. "memories light the corners of my mind .........of the days that used to be" ua-cam.com/video/CVC3MZpQnmk/v-deo.html 😥
So glad to see you arrive home safely. Those truckdrivers are a real menace on the roads.
Most of the truck drivers follow the rules of the road, but then we get those who drive recklessly and we happened to see many of them on the way home. 😨🚚 We did arrive home safely, thank you so much for joining us on this trip! 👌🏻🚙
An incredible driving adventure.
Thank you for taking the drive home with us, it was great fun! 🤩🚙
Looking forward to Verneukpan in the future! 🤞
Absolutely! Raincheck on Verneukpan! 🚙🤩
Oh no! I am so disappointed you could not see Verneukpan. I am sure you are too. Oh well, that will have to be another journey, wont it! The thing about Verneukpan is its unique atmosphere. Its like nowhere else. You have to actually be there. I do understand about the camping stoel. The most important issues are always those that we sit on. ?! Sounds like the Luftwaffe are after you there on your stop! That is a very long drive. I bet you were both knackered after that. Love travelling through Beaufort west, so many happy memories! There is a lot to see here, you ous would enjoy a visit. What a glorious Karoo sunset! Those lorries are insane!!!! My nerves!! So glad you are safe home. God bless!
I was super sad not to see Verneukpan like I planned, but luckily we don't suffer from FOMO and we've made complete peace with the fact that there will always be things and places we don't get to see. I think you know by now that we only focus on what we do manage to see and don't worry about the rest in the slightest. 🤷🏼♂️ Verneukpan will remain on the list though and hopefully we can make it work sometime in the near future! I'm glad you drove home with us, it was a very long, but very enjoyable drive. We laughed so much, it actually felt much shorter than it was! 🚙🤣 Thank you for your company on this trip, we so appreciate it!
@@DustBugsTravel FOMO? Is that what happens when one chucks a box of OMO into the fountain?
🤣 I'm sure that works as well!
THANK YOU for a wonderful week !!!! Travelling to little towns and places I only heard of !!!! So bly julle het daai kamp stoel terug gekry !!!! I AM THE SAME !!! My stuff are old - BUT WORKING PERFECTLY !!!! The journey back... those last hours of lights and trucks and grape sellers and... and... getting so TIRED - but, so EXCITED being back home !!! Looking forward to OUR next holiday out. AND, 10 outa 10 for your car !!!!!!!!!!!!!! God bless !!! Greetings from Klerksdorp. [ And, if you DO travel to the Northwest Province. You stay here at my place for free !! ]
It was a fantastic trip and fantastic to have you along, so thank you for joining us! 🚙🤩 We saw some places we've also only ever heard about and they were incredible! It was a little bit of a toss-up between Verneukpan and the forgotten stool and you know which one won in the end! 😝 Verneukpan is back on the list for a future trip back to the area. We'll definitely be heading to the North West hopefully in the next year or so, I spent a year in Klerksdorp when I was much younger, but I haven't seen it in 30 years or so! 😳 And, just so you know, we're back from OUR next trip already, so be ready tomorrow for the first instalment! 😁
Baie Dankie for taking me to the Green Kalahari👏👏👏 Even though I might not get there physically….thanks to yous 2, I’ve been…..Hallelujah!!!!
I hope to never ever have occasion to travel on the N1 - you must have been exhausted by the time you reached home. Those huge trucks and their shocking drivers are the stuff of nightmares.
But, what a wonderful week you had and to which we were treated!!! Thank you 🙏🏻
The trucks passing on solid lines on our highways really endanger everyone on the road and it was quite daunting on this particular stretch as you saw! 😨🚚 We had a fantastic week, saw some pretty amazing places, but fell right into bed when we arrived home. Thank you for visiting all these gorgeous places with us, we love having you on board! 🚙🤩
Dusty's & friends, I was in the kitchen getting a cup of tea before heading for the Kwid (which by the by had ND plates I noticed), I smiled as the thought crossed my mind " I wonder where we are off to?" Like I'm following a "soapie". Nice drive back home. Dangerous truckers, I hope their company's take note. We or rather I forget the risks you guys take to bring us great videos. Humour me some more as did Sonia at the 6.00 minute mark "I'm talking about the surface" and your answer, then the field started passing the car window in a reverse direction. I couldn't figure it out.🤣
I had to go and watch that part of the video to see what you mean. Sonia took the camera and filmed out of the passenger window, that's why it looked different. You're used to me filming out of the driver's side. 😁 The little Kwid indeed had a ND license plate, that was only the second time we had one with a number from Kwazulu-Natal. 🚙🤩 Thank you for joining us on this trip and on the road home! 😍🏡
Hi you two! Long as the trip was, the blue skies and stunning Karoo all around while it was still day, made the evening on the risky highway worth the while. Those trucks overtaking each other at 1 cm per minute across white lines always test my patience to the limit. I'm glad you made it home safely.
Thank you for the wonderful Karoo excursion, I really enjoyed the days with you and can't wait for the next trip.
Have a good rest and
Keep safe!
I was so happy to be in the Karoo and the Kalahari at the same time for a while and the drive through a section of the Central Kalahari was, as it always is, super special! I'm glad you enjoyed the drive and share my frustration with those big trucks who can simply not stay in their lane, pardon the pun! 🚚🛣️ We had such an abundance of blue skies and green landscapes that we completely fell in love again with the natural beauty this amazing country has on display for everyone to enjoy! 🌳☁️ 🇿🇦 We're back from our next trip already and I hope you'll be waiting kerbside for us to pick you up bright and early tomorrow morning! 🚙🤩
@@DustBugsTravel I'll be there!
First time I watch your whole week and route back home. I worked in Hopetown in my early teens and it was wonderful to see the town so much different. You truly pulled out gems I didn’t know existed in N.Cape. Thank you for sharing your travels
Thank you so much for taking every trip to every town with us and even back home! 🚙🏡 This part of the Northern Cape has so many gems (the perfect word) we weren't even aware of until I started planning our route. You must know the area around Hopetown quite well and I hope our video of that town, and hopefully others, reminded you of good times you spent in this incredible province. We look forward to you discovering more places with us! 🤩🛣️
Hi great vlog this week. There has been big rains over there...
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed our videos! 🤩🚙 We left the area about a week before the rains came and the rivers started to rise. 😨🌊
Hi guys so now I have driven from preska to Strand I have to take my hat to you having done that distance the roads seem in good condition. For some one from the UK the vastness of the land and the lack of people always amazes me plus the long views to mountains the quiet towns along the way reminds me of my time living in South Africa. I also remember you could only get beer on Friday night 7 o'clock and everyone loading up their cars bakkies with beers great idea with your cap extra visor I have the same problem they never come down low enough because I'm short 😀 l can never get enough of the African sunsets. The amount of trucks just goes to show you how much the railway took in the past thanks for a great video cheerio till the next one
Indeed you have! And it was fun, fun, fun having you along for the ride! 😁🚙 We were dead tired when we arrived home and literally collapsed into bed for a good long snooze! 😴 Great observation from your side and a grim reminder again of what a vacuum the demise of the railway system has left in South African society and the economy. Some of those trucks were manoeuvring dangerously! 😨🚚 The changing landscapes, the mountains in the distance and the spectacular sunset were all rewards for the long trip and they kept us going. Our next series starts tomorrow, so we will see you again then!
That was an awesome road trip! You and Sonia's humour and chatter brings so much joy to my life. Loved the hat part😄 Glad you got home safely. Have a good rest, and thank you!!!!
I'm glad you had fun with us, we had to amuse ourselves to keep awake! We had a good chuckle about the cap too! 🤣🧢 It turned out to be an awfully long day and we literally fell into bed! 😴 We had a good snooze, worked for a few weeks, but then were off again. We're back already from our next trip and Episode 1 of our latest adventure will go live tomorrow. I do hope you'll join us for that too, it's always great when you do! 🤩🚙
@@DustBugsTravelThat's great news! Can't wait! I'll get my snacks ready for the 1st episode🍿 🧀🧁
IAM looking forward to more of your videos. They are SO addictive that I watch some of the previous ones over again.
Me too😀
@Mrs Tukutela We worked for a few weeks once we were back home, but we're back from our next trip already, so you can look forward to our new series starting tomorrow already. I hope you enjoy those videos just as much! We appreciate you joining us on the road, it's always fun to have you along. 🤩🚙
@@DustBugsTravel I wouldn't miss them for the world. I will come along for a virtual ride again.
Took some nice screenshots of the Karoo veldt. Graaff Reinet also needs a second visit as you just whizzed through. But hey, you have to be admired for the many miles you travelled - doing what I enjoy most. Blessings.
Whizzing through is exactly what we do! 🚙🤩 We waited a long time for a nest empty of four-legged and winged children and, now that we can finally travel, we feel like tourists in our own country and want to see as many places as we can in the limited time we do get to travel. As stunning as Graaff-Reinett is, it's simply too overwhelming for explorers like us and that's exactly why we choose the smaller places since we feel we can cover and enjoy them much more! Enjoy those screenshots until our next adventure starts. I hope you'll enjoy the places we picked for that one too! We appreciate you being on our backseat as we discovered this part of the Northern Cape, thank you! 👌🏻😊
Wow, that was a trip & a half & to think we get to share it with you & Sonja, Simply the best travel vlogs in SA. What's makes it so special is that you acknowledge our comments & reply to everyone. lots of love to the both of you🥰
Thank you so much! It was truly a trip-and-a-half and we felt it in our bones that evening when we arrived home. I think I just managed to offload the Kwiddie and then we fell into bed! 😴 We love having you travel with us to all these fascinating places in this country of ours. 🚙🇿🇦 As long as my work and travel schedule allows me the time to reply to comments on our videos, I'll continue doing so. I enjoy the interaction with the folks who watch our videos and enjoy travelling just as much as we do! 🤩
Enjoy getting some sleep. You must be lekker moeg.
We did indeed pass out for a long time once we got back home! 😴 But we're already back from our next trip and the first episode will go live tomorrow! 🚙😁
What a trip home, glad you got your stool back. A really long trip home. Bad drivers wow, don't envy the night driving. Home safely great.❤
What a lovely trip you had! You showed us amazing places which I would definitely like to see one day. You must have been so tired by the time you arrived at home. Looking forward to the next trip!!
We're so happy you could join us, thank you! 😁🚙 We truly had a fantastic trip and discovered a part of the Northern Cape which astounded us on an hourly basis. Every place was fascinating and we loved every minute! We were dead tired when we got home and literally fell into bed. 🤣😴 But we're back home from our next trip already and I'll be uploading the first episode tomorrow. I hope you'll be on board again!
@@DustBugsTravel For sure!
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We had a wonderful time, thank you for joining us on the road as we visited this stunning part of the Northern Cape! 🤩🚙 We were happy to arrive safely back home and we fell into bed. 😴 But we're back from our next trip already and we look forwarding to sharing all the places we visited with you, starting tomorrow!
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Hey going to no water in well twice......heeeheee. Cows under bird nests....lots of giggles in this episode. 😂😂😂...
Pity about those trucks endangering other people on the road. Looked really scary driving in places. So glad you home safe....I dont drive in the dark anymore 😢 safe travels you two
How strange life works sometimes! From having never been to Putsonderwater to being there twice in three days, although the second one was literally just a drive-by visit! 😁🚙 I'm glad you giggled a lot too, that's about the only thing that kept the two of us awake on the way home! 🤣 That, and the wild trucks on the road, some of them were really driving recklessly! 😨🚚 The cattle under the bird nest umbrella was one of the highlights of our trip back home. Classic memory of the road to and from Putsonderwater! 🐂🌳 Thanks for joining us on this special trip through a special part of the Northern Cape, it was fantastic!
I’m shouting ‘ Wait ‘ to that big truck pulling into the road while you passing……yhooooo😮
Strand? Me and Mommy are from Strand! Viva for Adventures! 👌♥️
Strand indeed, our beautiful hometown! 😍🌊 Thank you for coming along on the drive home, it was a long one! 😁🚙
Northern Cape is a great area. I'm consider it as my area of operation for my trade goods. Selling to the general dealers of all kinds including supermarkets in the bigger towns like Upington, Kimberly etc.
I read on the internet that the person who owns the house that is lived in at Putsonderwater is the great grandson of the farmer who had the original farm.
That's very interesting! If I remember correctly, another viewer mentioned in a comment on here or on Facebook that he may own the whole town, but I'm really not sure. It will make sense if it were someone's farm that it would belong to someone and not to a local authority. Thank you for the info! 👌🏻🏡
When I saw the Hugenot Tunnel I felt so relieved that you guys were nearly home.. I was so on my nerves when you left Laingsburg and encountered those trucks 😖 I'm just glad you arrived in Town safely ❤️
We did indeed arrive safely, thank you! 🚙🤩 It was a very long day of travelling though and those trucks didn't make it any easier, but all is well that ends well. We just fell into bed once we'd offloaded that night. 🤣😴 We appreciate you taking the drive home with us!
Sorry about Verneukpan. I would have loved to see the two of you emulating Sir Malcolm Campbell. Maybe sometime in the future. Thank you for allowing me to go everywhere while going nowhere. Kind regards.
Sir Malcolm Campbell can be glad we didn't make it to Verneukpan this time around, we may have just broken some record out there, not exactly sure which one though! 😁🚙 Thank you so much for taking the trip home with us, we had a blast! 🤩
Dankie vir so n mooi toer wat ons kon saam ry ek sal nooit in my ou lewe daar kan gaan rondry maar ek geniet dit baie om te kyk dis so mooi dankie ❤😂
no wonder that there is so much carnage on the n1 with truck drivers like that. enjoy the rest before the outing.
It was really crazy how some of those truck drivers were passing one another on solid white lines. They endanger everyone else's life on the roads as well! 😨🚚 Luckily we arrived home safely, got some much-needed rest, but we're back from our next trip already, so will be sharing those videos from tomorrow. I hope you enjoy them too! 🚙🤩
Baie dankie voor alle video’s van deze heerlijke vakantiereis. Wat een luxe dat voor ons ‘kijkers’ de vakantie gewoon doorgaat met straks alweer episode 1 van de volgende Dustbug tocht terwijl jullie ondertussen gewerkt hebben. Leuk die bromvlieg op de verlaten gravelroad. Het beestje zoemde vrolijk om en voor je camera langs, en ging hopelijk niet mee in de auto 😅. Beter gezelschap in ieder geval dan die trucks op de N1 … Mogelijk wilden ze jullie alsnog het Verneukstad gevoel geven in een poging een nieuw snelheidrecord te vestigen ?🏎️ Die plaatsnaam spreekt natuurlijk wel tot enige verbeelding van Nederlanders, vanwege de 2e lettergreep 😜. De naamgevers beleefden daar duidelijk geen vruchtbare ervaringen. Ben benieuwd als jullie daar alsnog vast wel een keer komen. “And … relax” sprak Sonia verstandig over de wegpiraten, en jij gehoorzaamde natuurlijk, met je pet op standje teenager 😂. Fijn dat jullie weer heelhuids thuis kwamen!
It was great fun to have you on board through this part of the Northern Cape, I'm so glad you enjoyed it too! 😁🚙 The butterflies were too beautiful and enjoyed the gravel road too much, luckily they didn't get into the car! 🦋 Those trucks certainly tried to break speed and overtaking records, their manoeuvers were rather dangerous though and I did throw a little tantrum off-camera, just like a proper teenager! I had to do the cap justice! 🤣🧢 We arrived home safely and were absolutely exhausted after a very long day's travelliing, so we just unpacked the Kwiddie and fell into bed! 😴