In August 2024 we travelled 3,700kms in twelve days from Cape Town to Maun via Khaudum National Park in Namibia. I was travelling with our friend, Annie, a Canadian who lives in Türkiye and who travelled in 1979 with us and seventeen others in a truck from London to Kathmandu in eleven weeks. This was my first trip using my newly acquired vehicle. For the last ten years I have been driving a 2010 Toyota Fortuner. I suspect that I had pushed that vehicle further than Toyota had planned for. I have now purchased a 1999 Land Cruiser 105 4.5 litre straight line six-cylinder engine with 370,000 kms on the clock. I am the eighth owner in 25 years. The man I bought it from had owned it for nine years and had done 100,000 kms, mainly on tar roads. A Land Cruiser mechanic in Paarl had checked over the…