Len, ja die Hi-Lux is verskriklik lig op brandstof, kos net n bietjie water en Lusern en jy kan myle ver toer, kan nou nie teen 120km per huur beweeg nie maar n mens kom daar.
Years ago, I was touring the area around PK Le Roux dam, in a 1500 Toyota Stallion....
Had a canopy on, so I quickly bombed a bed in there, some milk crates for storage, a 20L plastic drum for water & a bunch of tinned stuff for food & skedadled out of J-burg....
Long & dusty road, I stopped for a roadside sarmie (my famous egg / ham / cheese / onion & lettuce sarmie) and some tea...
While stopped, a Colored? "family"? came klop-klop-klop-klop (seker die Hi-lux's se tappets) verby, met so n' "Hi-Lux", met net so aanmekaar geplakte sleepwa agter....
Behind that, was a hengse lank tou, wat vasgemaak oppi trailer en oppi ander end was n hond...
Shame I really felt sorry for the damn dog..... Panting.... Ribs showing...... Daar was g'n stop of rus virri hond....... Maar nou ja....
On the "sleepwa" was a couple of sheets of Iscor's finest rusty corrugated roofsheeting.....
Anyhow..... After a long time, i moved on, and just before the next town, there they where, parked in the veldt, the "Hi-lux" was grazing nearby and the roof sheeting was around the sides of the "sleepwa", and they had made home under the "sleepwa" , busy getting a fire going and so on...
It occured to me.............
Who the hells got the better life?
Me with my sophisticated 20Th centuary vehicle that needs petrol / money / licence.... A house that needs rates / taxes / lights / water / garden service and on and on.... For which I've got to work 5 days a week in some gringy factory, with people I can't stand for the rest of my natural life
Or these guys with a self-fueling "Hi-lux" & a blooming aanmekaar geplakte house on wheels?
the better life??
More Warren
Die persepsie kom seker saam met die ouderdom. Ek vang myself deesdae dat al die nonsens en sukkel met aardse lekker dinge my pla.
Dit voel soms dat hoe minder goet mens het, hoe minder is jou probleme. Minder wat kan breek, minder wat gesteel kan word, minder wat belas[ting] kan word. Dan ook minder interaksie by lisensiekantore, binnelandse sake, stadsraadkantore en vuurwapenlisensies.
As dit ons sienswyse is, en persepsies, dan WEET mens dat jy in 'n third world land bly.
Wessel ek stem hoe minder…
Wessel ek stem hoe minder mens besit hoe minder stres het mens.
Ek cerstaan nie mooi wat dit met ń derde wereld te doen het nie?
Sover ek weet is NZ, USA en Nederland eerste werelde?
Het familie in al drie en hul het dueselfde filosofie???
Derde wereld
Môre Arie en Alta
Slegs die gedeelte omtrent die aversie van blootstelling aan staatsdienskantore het betrekking op die 3de wereld persepsie.
Ekskuus, dit was sekerlik misleidend, maar soms spring my gedagtes rond.
Groete
In a similar vein.... The new Toyota Cowrolla