GOOD  NEWS  EVERYONE;     We finally got our car through customs and to the port last Wednesday...... right on closing time.... but we  drained the fuel,  disconnected the battery terminals and left our little car in the shed waiting to be put into a container the following day.    

The name of the ship taking our car  to Mombasa is Mare Curibium, which left Adelaide waters on Monday,  a couple of days later than exp...

      He we sit waiting patiently to get the all-clear to take the car to the port.  'The Office',  as she is known is packed the hilt with everything you can imagine... and lots that you cannot.!!  The car is also full of medical equipment destined for Lodwar hospital and aitong clinic.  

We originally planned on taking the car to the port last Friday, so we worked feverishly to get it packed and ready,....  we even got our Passage De Carne (pass...

Well,  as you can see i have changed the style of our website..... bare with me, it may change a few more times yet..... but i hope to make this more user-friendly so i can include a map of where we are going and a few other things if i can make them work.  Dont forget to use the RSS feed at the bottom of the page, so that you will be notified automaticlly when i  make a up-date.

On the homefront this time, the car is still being worked on... now it is with

The good news is that preperations are going well, and we have a leaving date.              Yes,  we will be leaving Australia on Monday 9th September (my birthday),  and arriving in Nairobi, Kenya on the 12th.    Our  car (Landrover 130 dualcab ute..1996)will be leaving before us,  around 17th August, by ship to Mombasa, where we will pick it up ar...

IT'S  OFFICIAL.    Looks like our long term dream of travelling around Africa is finally coming to reality.     We are working on the plan to give up work in July at the latest, then ship our car over to Kenya in August or September this year.:D

Our game plan at this point is to pick up our car from the port in Mombasa, Kenya,  deliver all our medical equipment to the Aitong and Lodwar hospitals,  spend up to 3 months in Kenya,  the...