S1 - Ep 206 - Rouxville - The Town that was a Halfway Stopover for Mail! 

You're so right! 😁 I also love how wide the roads are in these small towns.

I AM WATCHING ......RUST EN VREDE EN LICHTENSTEIN WAS ONS FAMILIE PLASE. SO BLY HULLE RY DAAR DEUR.

@Daniel Prinsloo We appreciate you watching and are glad to hear you enjoyed our visit to Rouxville! 😁🚗

@christaelindsay What a fantastic area, the landscapes and roads surrounding Rouxville were great to see! 👌🏻🚗

@@DustBugsTravel I enjoy all your travels , thank you for the efforts that you put into your videos .

Wow, how kind are you! Thank you for your wonderful comment about us and our channel. We love every moment on the road and are just too happy that you're tagging along! We're in 100% agreement with you and so appreciate our viewers colouring in the stories and places we visit with their own memories and knowledge. We're literally like two kids again and having such a great time discovering places we've only or never even heard of before. We hope to take you to many more such places with us! 🤩🚗

I am not going anywhere! You are my favourite channel 😉💕

That water monitor was a great sighting for us and we spent a fair bit of time admiring it! 🦎 I still feel that 62 was a ripe old age for Johanna van der Merwe to have reached, especially in those days and after having suffered such severe wounds from assegai attacks. In this day and age, 62 (and 63!!) is still a spring chicken though. 😁 I haven't been able to find who designed the Dutch Reformed Church in Rouxville, but I thought the stonework was magnificent. We did see a church later on in our trip which was designed by Gerard Moerdyk. So glad you're enjoying our travels through this part of the Free State, it was really a good experience for us too! 🚗🧡

@@DustBugsTravel I think Moerdijk is brilliant. I also have my assegai wounds, but they are on the inside where nobody sees them. Dankie weereens vir n puik video!

It was good to see all the new builds in town! We're glad you're enjoying travelling along with us to all these small towns. 😎🚗

We also couldn't believe how the sightings just kept on coming, it was wonderful and a great start to our day! 😁🚗

It was fascinating that so many new houses were bring built! Interesting that you've seen those silver trimmings before, we didn't even know they existed! We were really spoilt with all kinds of wildlife on the gravel road and that is always a highlight for us. Thank you for coming along again! 🦎🦌

Thank you for the interesting info, as always! 👌🏻I thought those two antelope had some blesbok in them, I see this hybrid is known as bontebles or baster blesbok, I've never heard either of these two names before. 🦌 Johanna van der Merwe was a true heroine and we were happy to see such a brave and courageous woman honoured. Such rich wartime history in this area, we appreciate you providing it. 🚗🏛️

Yup, exactly! We got stuck in mud once when I took a chance through a big puddle. So, since then, there is always a little nervousness when we have to drive through puddles! Check out Episode 149 sometime! 😨🚗

Thank you so much, we're so happy that you've joined us on our travels, your comment made us feel as if you've jumped into the car with us! 🤩 Interesting that you found us when you were searching for Merweville videos, I hope you will get to visit that wonderful place soon, if you haven't already. I grew up in the Free State, so know the province fairly well, but Sonia only knew the Ultra City in Bloemfontein until this trip. 🤣 I was determined to change that. We hope you will continue exploring all the small towns and faraway places with us, there is plenty more to come! 😁🚗

@@DustBugsTravel Oh yes, we are most definitely visiting Merweville very soon! In December my mother in law will be visiting us here in Cape Town and we will be spending a week in the Karoo over the Christmas period. Merweville is our first stop, and we are just absolutely bouncing with excitement 😂🤣 Your videos in Merweville just amped up that excitement even more! 😁 I've even sent the link to my hubby and mom in law and they also love your channel! 😁 Ah how lucky you are to have grown up in the Free State, what a childhood that must have been! 🤩 So happy to hear there's even more awesome content coming up 😁 Keep up the awesome work! You definitely have a loyal viewer over here 🤩 Sorry its taken me this long to post a comment, I am always so eager to get on to the next video 🤣

Yup, true that! 🤩 This was a particularly good road as far as wildlife goes. We saw all sorts, which was fantastic! 🦎🦌 Happy that you joined us!

Oh, absolutely. Us too! To be completely honest with you, we were so caught up in the fact that the houses looked so great and that there were so many new builds, which we very seldom see in the small towns we visit, that we completely forgot to go and explore the rest of the town. 😏🤷🏼‍♂️ We hope though that what we did manage to see and show reminded you of some good times at least in your hometown. 😁🚗

Thanks! 👌🏻🚗

Thank you, glad you liked it! 😎🚗

So glad you liked the tune I picked for the drone footage! As if the gravel road wasn't a spoil in itself, we were so happy to see all the wildlife, we loved them all! We don't believe in a huge amount of research before we visit a town or place, we love to happen upon things that interest us. Of course if loadshedding and / or cellphone signal permits in a specific place, Google is always at hand to provide a little extra info where needed! 😁🦎 Thank you for exploring Rouxville with us!

That's exactly why we take the backroads into towns! 😁🚗

How very kind of you, thank you so much! Welcome to our channel, we're so happy to have you along for the ride. We look forward to taking you to quite a few more Southern Free State towns and beyond! 😁🚗

The wildlife on that gravel road really set the tone for the day, we were blown away by the variety of animals and birds. We're not sure about Rouxville specifically, but we've been to other small towns where the property prices are steadily increasing as cityfolk discover them and the quality of life they provide. If we were able to work remotely, we would've certainly considered exchanging the city for a small country town. The only problem is we wouldn't have been able to choose, we love them all so much! 🤩 It was interesting to see so many new builds, that must surely be an indication of more people moving into town. That was quite encouraging. So happy you enjoyed our trip to Rouxville! 😁🚗

@@DustBugsTravel 😄 tis also a reason Im loving your channel.. checking out all the little towns and what they look like now compared to back when I was traveling around the country.. we moved to a tiny village nearly 12 years ago, and have loved living here. I think in the last 2 years over a hundred people have moved here so far, and they keep coming in from the big cities.. only problem is some want to change the atmosphere of our village by wanting more and more of what they're used to in the city, like our dust roads for instance..we love them, but they want tar and street lights something we definitely don't want..at the moment we only have one main tar road which runs thru the town. Our village is only 15km from a small town so the older residents here have tried to maintain the small village vibe which we love so much..the more people move in the further away our wildlife wonder.. but it's still wild and beautiful..for now.🚗✨💖

Thank you, I'm so glad you enjoy our videos! 👌🏻🚗 My wifey loves to laugh! 😍 She is not keen at all to appear in front of the camera. I've begged, I've pleaded, but it's all fallen on deaf ears thus far. So, for now at least, her laughter and chatter will just have to do I'm afraid. 😏

The wildlife was amazing on that gravel road, we loved seeing so many animals! 🦎🦌 I haven't seen the Free State landscape in many years and I'm so glad we decided to go there this time. Rouxville is really doing well as far as we could tell and we were very excited about all the new houses being built, that can only be good for the town. Thank you for driving through the town with us!

We don't see them outside of National Parks and we thought he deserved some shine with that square ball of his! 🤩🦗

Thank you, appreciate the info! 👌🏻🦌 A fellow viewer indicated that it may he a cross between a bontebok and a blesbok, referred to as a basterblesbok. I'm not an expert though. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Rouxville indeed has a CBD where locals obtain goods and services from. We happened to enter the town from a backroad, as we do, and decided to continue on straight towards the direction of the church and residential area. We completely forgot to return to the area where we assume the CBD is, but simply stopped at the first shop we could find, a U-Save, and then exited the town. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I'm so glad we could help you find it. It was our pleasure. 😁🚗

😁 It's all about context. I honestly feel that Johanna van der Merwe, having suffered and survived so many assegai wounds which could've so easily been fatal, was a remarkable woman and I think blessed to have reached the age of 62.