Go! Drive & Camp

Our DIY holiday home on wheels

Camping flows through the veins of the Kaalsens – for a long time they did so in a 1995 model Sprite Sport. But then, one Easter weekend a couple of years back, Johann decided enough was enough when he saw his teenage children, Diaan and Simoné, spending most of their time in the tent, busy on their phones.

Because Johann also has a motorcycle, he decided that he and his wife Jereline would tour with the bike in future and leave the children at home – that’s what the kids wanted, after all.

The caravan was therefore no longer needed, and so they sold it… but a year later Johann realised they should never have let the caravan go. Regret, as they say, comes too late and they needed to make another plan. Johann

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