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Hi All,

As previously said, please forgive my spelling and tenses. I grew up in the Kalahari where we started crying and went into hiding when the Engelse came to visit us. Charles, please help us Afrikaanse ouens with an English spell and grammar check on this forum. I want to run away when I must write something on the forum.

Ag wat, let me try.

We had a nice all tar trip over the past weekend. 22-24/02/2013.

If someone said to me, sum up this weekend in twenty words or less, I would say:

Brilliant company, awesome weather, stunning scenery, fantastic routes, warm hospitality, excellent venue, delicious food, plenty water, many crashes, home safe.

This is by no means the official trip report, if you want to still write a proper trip report, be my guest. But if you have pictures and don’t feel like writing a report, please just add them to this post.

“We have received a few emails that go along the line of “but what about us ”.

So due to this extreme pressure , we are planning an overnight, off road ride to a new (for us) venue called Op die Plaas, nestled between the Klein Swartberg and Elandsberg Mountains

the first leg of our 20 day road trip: Cape Town to Marken

The short way up: Botswana 5369

20 day road trip adventure

 

Trip manifesto

We have to have fun up to the last minute – our holiday is not over until we ride into the garage

We will explore new roads and new town, meet new people and see new things along the way

After weeks of scouring the web for suitable routes and countless hours spent tweaking the selected route on Mapsource - I wanted to find a route that avoided the N1, N2 and R62 yet was suitable for a "solo" ride - Adrienne and I finally set off on Friday morning enroute to Wilderness.

Annie n I decided it was time again to do an "us only" trip. Something we have not done since my RT days in our 'life-before-GS'. Annie was so amazing, apart from being my best friend for 27 years, she has lapped up the love of adventure riding in a big way. She catered very well and packed a daily ration of nibbles for each day as well as many 175ml bottles of Bells whiskey, freeze dried meals, ag man I was spoilt for choice and volume. We delayed our departure to Sunday 28th April to attend a very special wedding I'm glad we never missed. I had planned an itinerary of daily kilos, where to stay, route-to-ride etc.

This has taken some time to compile and another week has flashed past with still some wonderful memories lingering in our heads. Once again, fantastic routes and even more fantastic people. '''Friday, 26 October 2007 - Cape Town to Kleinplaas, an interesting way round''' Our trip started from the normal location Swartland Engen on the N7 with breakfast at 7am. At this point we were 11 bikes with 15 people. Swarland meeting point 3 bikes (4 people) from the Helderberg left the Lord Charles Hotel together at 7.30 pm to meet up with the others in Wellington at 8.30am. We saw some interesting sights on the way. Check out this early morning delivery!