2025 Drift

It’s been an interesting few weeks since I beat a hasty retreat back to JHB, after my health scare. I did something very unusual for me… I took myself off to a doctor, an allopathic type doctor, which I usually avoid doing, but I think the doctor I chose to see is a little bit…

I’ve been a bit quiet because I’ve had a few health struggles and, as my friends know, when I struggle I go into my cocoon and just wait to get better. Usually I do get better and off I go again, but this time I didn’t, and I only realised this when I was 4…

I always, without fail, regret booking a camping site ahead of time. But, I also always, without fail, regret not booking somewhere and ending up wild camping in the Free State. Well, it only happened once, but it will hopefully only happen once. And so I booked ahead to stay at a campsite in Mashishing,…

There’s something so exciting for me about packing my car to the brim with my camping gear and heading off to find my next adventure. Because, there seems to be one around every corner and over every mountain. Or is that just me and my life. I love it! Heading off to the Kruger Park…

After visiting the Mac Mac Falls I decided to quickly pop over the mountain to Pilgrims Rest. Of course there’s no popping anywhere on the Panorama Route, because the roads are so bendy and curvy and they take you up and down and around and around, through the mist then blinding sunshine, between occasional potholes…

I decided to stay an extra day in the Panorama Route, which I truly regretted the next day, but there were some sights I hadn’t yet seen and in the end I did have an interesting time of connections and insights, so it was worth it. I’d been staying at the Mac Mac Forest Retreat,…

I woke up on Sunday to a lot of activity, and someone testing a loudspeaker, which was my cue to get the hell out of dodge for the day. I remembered that the Mac Mac Forest Retreat is actually a Christian retreat and realised that they were probably gearing up for a bit of a…

The morning after the storm I was so nervous walking down to my tent, or maybe where my tent used to be. I wasn’t sure yet if the storm had washed my drift and dreams away, and if I’d be heading home all sad and dejected. I hadn’t heard heavy rains in my safari tent…

Although I’ve been drawn to drift through Mpumalanga, I also have a vague, unsettled feeling about this leg. So much is happening that I could frame as “negative” but at the same time I’m receiving so many insights and experiencing so much growth that I think it may just be spiritual growing pains. I’ll only…

I managed at last to tear myself away from kitty loves and headed off to Mpumalanga. As much as I love the little lap cats and other smallish creature energies, I really want to see and interact with some big animals for some reason. We don’t have many in the Western Cape so it would…