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    Over the Hills and Far Away (Complete)

    Jaun took the picture with his cell phone. It one of my favorites as well. I used the helmet cam only for videos. You wil see my helmets peak in the snap shots that I took from the video.
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    Over the Hills and Far Away (Complete)

    Day 9. Planned route: Queenstown to Baviaanskloof. 510km Actual route: Rhodes to Queenstown. 330km Schedule: Behind 1 day. A not so lekker Christmas Eve. Today is the first day that we manage to depart reasonably early. We said good bye to our new friends but not before we had our group photo...
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    newbie sounds good

    Uit-blerrie-eindelik kan ek ook sê.
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    Over the Hills and Far Away (Complete)

    Day 8. Planned route: Maclear to Queenstown. 330km Actual route: Hobhouse to Rhodes. 270km Schedule: Behind 1 day. Free balling all the way to Vleesbaai. As per our original plan yesterday the 22nd was supposed to be a rest day. With all the misfortunes that we had so far we decided to push...
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    Over the Hills and Far Away (Complete)

    Dankie vir die aanbod.  :thumleft: Maart is dalk so bietjie gou op ons en dit gaan maar kwaai druk nou hier op site. Sal dalk 'n plan kan maak. Ek wou oorspronklik eers vir Augustus geboek het vir die Moolmanshoek kursus. Kan dit dan maar net sowel vroeer doen. Sal jou laat weet.
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    Spot the location!

    Gaan jy ook so spotlight in sy hol laat op skyn?  :peepwall:
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    Spot the location!

    Begin tog vir ons die week Stofdonkie.
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    Over the Hills and Far Away (Complete)

    Day 7. Planned route: Rest day. Actual route: Katse dam to Hobhouse via Maseru 290km. Schedule: Behind 2 days. Get me out of farking London. (Ewan Mcgregor – Long Way Round) Today was the 22rd of December and we were supposed to be in the Eastern Cape by now. We were two days behind schedule...
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    Over the Hills and Far Away (Complete)

    Day 6. Planned route: Tele bridge border post via Rhodes to Maclear 200km. Actual route: Somewhere very wet in Lesotho to Katse dam 75km. Schedule: Behind 2 days. Live is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still. We did not sleep much during the night...
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    Over the Hills and Far Away (Complete)

    Day 5. Part 2. Paying the ferry man his dues. The clouds start building up again as we were parked off next to the road taking a breather. We still had 50km to ride to Letseng diamond mine and to the turn off towards Katse dam. We had to hurry not to get wet as the rain closed in on us quickly...
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    Over the Hills and Far Away (Complete)

    Day 5. Part 1. Planned route: Katse dam via Thaba Tsheka on the A4 to Tele bridge border post 470km. Actual route: Himeville to some where wet in Lesotho 200km. Schedule: Behind 1 day. Paying the ferry man his dues. This morning Jaun managed to be up before me. I guess the lack of sleep the...
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    '07 Xchallenge For sale: PRICE DROPPED R47000

    Het die link na 'n vriend toe gestuur. Sy mond water omtrent. Sukkel net met finasiering by die bank want hy het nie lisensie nie. Het vir hom gese hy moet jou 'n mail stuur.
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    Over the Hills and Far Away (Complete)

    I don't want to get involved in Jaun's business. I will get him to join and he can tell us the full story.
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    Over the Hills and Far Away (Complete)

    Day 4. Planned route: Himeville to Katse dam 210km Actual route: Sterkfontein dam (Harrismith) via Nottingham road to Himeville 250km. Schedule: Behind 1 day. Enter the rain. I gasp for air as I wake up this morning. It seemed a large pack of lions as shared this little tent with us last night...
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    Over the Hills and Far Away (Complete)

    Each night within his prison cell, he looks out through the bars. He reads the letters that she wrote. One day he'll know the taste of freedom. [as performed by Nightwish] Saturday the 18th. Day 3. Planned route: Memel via Nottingham road to Underberg 330km Actual route: Ladysmith KZN to...
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    Over the Hills and Far Away (Complete)

    Friday the 17th. Day 2. Planned route: Pretoria to Memel 330km Actual route: Pretoria to Ladysmith KZN via Memel and Normandien pass 470km. This is a nice fish. It’s got huge farking eyes though but it is still a nice fish. (Martin Lawrence Bad Boys 2) After a restless night during which I...
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    Over the Hills and Far Away (Complete)

    On your marks. Get set. GO. For those of you reading this ride report you can always go back to the table attached in the planning phase to see how close we stuck to the planned route and why we had to divert from it to get back on schedule again. Thursday the 16th Day 1.  Only 120km. I was...
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    Over the Hills and Far Away (Complete)

    If you only walk in the sun you will never reach your destination - Chinese saying The Plan It took me quite a while to make up my mind of where to go this time around. As said before in 2009 we did the West coast so for 2010 I wanted to do more of an Eastern route. We both have our annual...
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    Over the Hills and Far Away (Complete)

    Over the hills and far away, she prays he will return one day. As sure as the rivers reach the seas, back in his arms he swears she'll be. [as performed by Nightwish] Prologue To start this ride report I will have to start somewhere and that would have to be right in the beginning. No not...
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    Riding the brown snake Part 2

    Hi Twister en Dust Rat. Dit was lekker om julle twee te ontmoet in Hobhouse en om gesigte by name te sit.. Julle roete lyk nogal lekker tuff. Thanks vir die raad oor modder ry ons twee het oorgenoeg tyd gehad en plekke om dit wat julle vir ons gese het te beproef. Werk soos 'n bom tot jy gaan...
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