As a theatre maker I came up
with a plan for a journey.
A journey of a little girl on a
tractor. A journey to the end of
the world, and back. But what
is the end of the world?
If I was a child, I would say: the South Pole! As an adult
I said: the worst war-country
I can imagine. Both voices,
The one of the child and the one
of the adult, said: We want to go!
Then I thought: All right,
we'll just dó that.

Doing.
Many people talk about it,
but few actually do.

Fear holds people back,
Held-back people have regrets.
Fear and regret are damaging
to people's lives, are damaging
this world. Governed by fear
and regret, there's no room for
happiness.
Southpole challenges those fears.
It tries to encourage.
Southpole is about the will to face
the world with an open-minded
attitude. The will to face world's
beauty.
Southpole does not want to be
afraid. Southpole asks:
What is it you fear?
What is it that makes you happy?
What gives you courage?

As a child I mount a tractor
and head for the South Pole.
As an adult I'll make sure I
make it home safely.

A glimps of the past….

For the first time during my journey I can show you some moving footage! (well, if it’s moving I can’t tell;)

Still haven’t found out how to edit these small movies, but hereby a glimps of a morning in the Sudan (December 2005).
Driving away from a bush-camp along the river Nile, Northern Sudan.

At the beginning still, of my journey through Africa, with the support-car still there. Nostalgia!
(I had a team 3,5 months of this 3,4 year long journey).

Now supportcar Saar has a baby, for excample; Abel is his name! Hij was born three days before I drove into Cape Town (Oktober 2008). All lives continued in their unique directions….

I moved alone with the tractor and the dog, and all the people I met along the way of course;) Boy, was I slow!

Check out You-tube movie on site: tractortractor.org/english

Camp along the Nile, Northern Sudan (dec. 2005)

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