INBOX I'm reclining here, flipping through the latest Drive & Camp – marvelling at all the fancy caravans: are all these luxuries in the bush really necessary? Absolutely!
This backroad-grandma might be a tad old-fashioned and believes that the fewer things that can rattle, the lower your chances of trouble. After my husband, Koos, passed away in 2004, I exchanged our Jurgens Penta for a brandnew Conqueror Commander. My son Woudter and I looked at various off-road caravan options, but I wanted something I could handle and set up on my own. I'm a shortish grandma and at 71, I still manage fine.
Over the past 19 years, I've only had one mishap. The jockey wheel shook loose on the Wildeperdehoek Pass in Namaqualand, and the light coupling also came…
