Attie Heunis's Journey

The ramblings of a Caucasian African American

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Originally from South Africa’s magnificent Eastern Cape, my family and I now reside in Pennsylvania in the United States. To earn my keep I’m an executive for a multinational company in the Healthcare sector. I’m also a serious amateur photographer. Pro-environmental and conservation views.

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  • New Opel Astra

    Today I traded my Opel Meriva 1.7 CDTi for a new Opel Astra 1.8 (Petrol) Sport. So far I have to say it is a superb car.

  • Maatjies by Hogsback

    Ons het die naweek saam met vriende (Mike en Tanya Smuts & Sven en Katinka Ladewig) op Lowestoffe by Hogsback gespandeer. Dit is ‘n asemrowende deel van die Oos-Kaap. Die legende is dat dit die laaste plek is waar feetjies nog natuurlik voorkom 🙂 Soos die foto aandui het die kinders (vlnr. Mia, Gustav &…

  • Opel Meriva 1.7CDTi Engine Trouble

    I bought a Meriva 1.7CDTi last year in September. Both my wife and I love this car, BUT it has an unexplained engine problem. It will sometimes randomly just not start. Then usually when you leave the car for a couple of hours it starts no problem. The intermittency makes it very difficult to find…

  • Front page for The Red Apple

    We had a curious incident at our shop a couple of weeks ago: Thandeka Mali, a Ndlambe (our local authority) official, threw a tantrum saying that we employ too many coloured people instead of black people (for overseas readers in South-Africa coloured and black are not the same; “coloureds” come from nomadic tribes who populated…

  • Elke loop (op video)

    Ons het vanoggend Elke se eerste treë op video vasgevang. Met die hulp van tegnologie kan lesers dit ‘n paar uur later sien. Die is ook toevallig my eerste Youtube upload.

  • Its official: Elke is walking!

    Excactly 12 weeks after Elke started crawling she has started walking. She has actually taken steps before but they turned out to be flukes. Since yesterday she is taking small steps and often. Now the fun and games commence!

  • My Opel Meriva

    I was playing around with my camera when I took this photograph of my car, an Opel Meriva 1.7 CDTi. I love the car – it had some problems in the beginning but Kenrich Delta sorted it out – now it is good on fuel, comfortable, fast, has all the features you need and I…

  • Boesmans sunrise/sunset & more

    I have just updated the Bushman’s River Mouth homepage to show a 3-day weather forecast. This data is ‘live’ and pulled via an RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feed from BBC. Sofar the forecasts have been very accurate. I’m still trying to get an RSS feed of the tides, but sofar the closest match is for…

  • Brand new Mercedes C Class: a beauty!

    We just saw the brand new Mercedes C Class outside our shop. It is so new it has not even been priced yet in this country nevermind released. I must say it is a beautiful car! I’ve always been a fan of Mercedes since my dad had the W126 (the best selling shape Merc has…

  • Inaugural Boesmansriviermond BigBash

    This weekend we had the inaugural Boesmansriviermond BigBash. The idea being to have a party for people our age in and around Bushman’s. We organised it a bit late and not for the absolute best time (in the school holidays) so many people couldn’t make it, but despite that everybody that was there had a…