My Big Brother

I spotted him from far but I knew immediately it is him

My bigger brother

God, I was so glad to see him

It's been such a long time

But there he was with his sweet little face

and big bright, honest eyes,

all dressed up

smiling back at me

Oh, my beautiful big brother

I do love you very much

Touring The SA In The Old Days

There was a time before the air-conditioned, four wheel drive luxury cars that roam all over the roads of SA today. Touring the SA in the old days must have been an alltogether different reality. I was not born then but  I am very much close to this reality now because I drive a 1968 VW beetle. There is not much use for a cockpit spray because the cockpit is so small and the bottle would last may be three years.

Here two lovely ladies are waving to the driver of an elegant and sexy SA tour bus thundering down the road to Oudtshoorn.

And here we have the "creme de la creme" - a SILVER EAGLE MOTORCOACH of the S.A. Railways parked in a romantice spot overlooking Pretoria.

In this picture the fire-red SA tour bus is roughing it a little bit out on a sand road close to Plettenberg Bay. In the far distance the Plettenberg hotel can be seen. These old prints have been in my archive for a while. They are memory postcards issued by S.A.Railways decades ago to show off the pride of their stable. They are undated and there are no names of photographers mentioned.

Gone Deep

Why did you go so deep this time ?

What were you lookin for ?

I AM COMING HOME TO YOU

I am coming home to you.

 you just don't know it yet

EVERYTHING CAN BE FIXED

NEARLY EVERYTHING

Traveling through the Transkei

We started our journey under a storm -sky and followed the road to nowhere.

The clouds became more spectacular the longer we traveled through the Transkei. The houses and the earth besides the road turned black.

Beautiful green everywhere after the rains that we had in the last couple of weeks.

And these wheels have a couple of years to show - and they were still going strong, traveling the road before us with no haste and no hurry.

A typical Transkei landscape. The houses are all painted in bright colors.



The shopping-center in Butterworth.

A view down the road on a busy saturday afternoon.

But to get there is sometimes not as easy as it looks, road construction authorities have a tendency to be very playful with theirdeviations. Sign-posts can sometimes out-number the traffic.

And the long wait sets in.



For some a very very very long wait if you are on the wrong side of the road. Like in life.

When permission is finally given to move again, confusion occurs occasionally when drivers have different perceptions concerning the direction the move should be made to.

Political campaigning for the next presidential election in 2009 is in full swing all over the country. And in the remotest areas one can find bill boards with candidates hoping to be the next president .



The police is also not a 100% sure. Prefers to be on a rather-observing position in the middle of the road.

And the bus gives really no shit.....

Caught in the moment, Pregnant and probably not too happy about it... I guess. Soon a single mom ? The fate of many young girls in South-Africa.

The storm is lingering ahead of us.