Fighting the devil!

[Gumba]

Start the ride in fantastic weather, plan to just ride 3 days losotho and join the festivities in rhoads for a beer festival!!
Warning a Dutchman can cook mutton and knows nothing about roasting a pig!! NOTHING!
From port Shepstone, (oribi) we ride dirt roads to criton following the mighty umzimkule river, stunning . The dirt roads don’t end until Franklin where we top u tanks, and head for the mountains. Nice ride up ramasgate to sehlabetebe, where we find a small 2 bedroom lodge, stunning place with lots of wood so a jolly braai with a bottle of scotch was had

 

[Gumba]

Next day wake up to a stunning clear sky . Hit the road and see a flock of vultures feeding. Ride up to them and see they feeding on a foal, find some white feathers and pick them up thinking what a lucky charm how wrong I was !
At a little intersection we stop to take pictures of a 40 yr old cruiser, ask an old man if we follow the road if it comes out at semokong. so we ride it ! Stunning, no cars , nothing but bliss, one or two neat villages and stunning scenery.

 

[Gumba]

Get to semokong and even the falls were dry . Booked into back packers and most technical side was riding to top cottage
Had a brilliant braai of pork x wild boar , best chops ever .

 

[Gumba]

Leave semokong and head to lady grey via tell bridge. Hot as hell, so a couple warm maluti with a swim in senque helped.

 

[Gumba]

Was a long day in the saddle, nice tar road and even thought mr president could teach our president a thing or two, don’t keep all the Chinese money to yourself, spend some of it on roads and schools as well!
Finally get to lady grey and buy cold castles and chips.
And as you leave town you can see Ktm boys have been here, before every corner is looong skid marks, and other side of corners looong snake marks

 

[Gumba]

eventually get to the Rhodes pub
Couple Ktm riders on crutches, lots of limping and moaning going on and a load of bikes on trailers, but Booz fixes wounded temporary!
Then October beer festival starts, and serious Dutchmen can’t cook a pig!! Stick to skaap. But whisky and snuff shooters wash it all down.
They imported some bar lady’s and locals were excited like school kids , and wives we’re looking grumpy as hell because nobody went to the fees , they stuck in the pub, no dancing like the wives thought

 

[Clockwork Orange]

Looks amazing!!

 

[Grootseun]

Lesotho is calling…

 

[Gumba]

So after leaving the pub at midnight, we woke up at 6 to a light drizzle, had a cup of coffee and listened to akroprovic symphony heading out of town early, either in kak from home or got hot wives
So we follow. And this is when kak begins, you see rhinos ride never ever has an easy ending! Instead of going left at the intersection he says some old farts from matatiele say cattle paths past old Toyota is a decent ride
But where he was told to stick to fence line, he follows his own sick track ! Vok ! Can’t see 100 m because of drizzle and just try and follow. By now there is vok all track, just cattle paths that also disappear. Until we end up on a cliff face and no where or idea which direction.
Jeez , I’m old unfit and babalaas. And the track is hell. Exhausted fuck all to eat and cramping, arm pump of note and he just carrying on!!

 

[Gumba]

So after meeting up with akroprovic riders at matat steers we have a burger.
Hit dirt rd all the way home .fantastic!
But
1am Monday from a dead sleep my bowls just opened like a jumbo jet passing through. And won’t stop, by 5 am i take a handful of Imodium and all that does is tighten the sphincter muscle!!!
By 9 I’m in hectic pain, look 9 months pregnant and battling to breathe. So phone my poor wife who just abscond from class and loads me on the back seat, feeling every bump was hell.
Now when we get to casualty’s the most useless Nigerian doctor with all day on his side met the wrath of a angry Dutchman ( my wife) she dragged him into the waiting room where I was rolling on the floor and gave him hell.
After being admitted and flooding the floor with puke they decided my appendix must’ve burst. So cutting me open everything pushed out like a car tube bursting. So they removed everything, place in a bowl, check for cancer ( nothing ) wash all organs and replace
Unfortunately ( or fortunately) my infection rate sores and I slip into a coma for 6 days.
This is where I swear the devil tryed to kidnap! I could hear heavy metal music constantly, and felt like the earth swallowed me up and where ever I went I was stepping on dead bodies everywhere. That was hell! If I open my eyes I could see three dimensions through the roof, so would close my eyes and blood and dead druggies everywhere.
Not ashamed to say I prayed for it to end .
After 6 days , I was aware of people, was the nursing staff from icu and my wife who the hospital had called to say it’s nearly over she must come quickly. They were all praying.
But only good die young
And I think snt Peter was busy watching World Cup so never answered my knock on the Perl gates!
After 2 weeks in icu, lost 11 kg and only ate fucken jelly. Never want to see that shit again!!!
Had somehow picked up sceptacemia!!
Lesson learned, every second of every day is valuable, don’t wast it. Never say or do anything nasty as you don’t get that second back.
I thank god for my incredible family and the community I live in that supported them and prayed for me . So still got couple rides left to do !

 

[m0lt3n]

damn, thats a plot twist!

hope all is well now! Sounds rough. Which hospital were you in?

 

[Rufus115]

Holy FUCK!!!....I'm sorry for the language...no, wait, I'm not!

 

[JonW]

Damn Long Bob, that's a hectic ending to a ride through Lesotho.....glad you got out of there.....

 

[frankmac]

So after meeting up with akroprovic riders at matat steers we have a burger.
Hit dirt rd all the way home .fantastic!
But
1am Monday from a dead sleep my bowls just opened like a jumbo jet passing through. And won’t stop, by 5 am i take a handful of Imodium and all that does is tighten the sphincter muscle!!!
By 9 I’m in hectic pain, look 9 months pregnant and battling to breathe. So phone my poor wife who just abscond from class and loads me on the back seat, feeling every bump was hell.
Now when we get to casualty’s the most useless Nigerian doctor with all day on his side met the wrath of a angry Dutchman ( my wife) she dragged him into the waiting room where I was rolling on the floor and gave him hell.
After being admitted and flooding the floor with puke they decided my appendix must’ve burst. So cutting me open everything pushed out like a car tube bursting. So they removed everything, place in a bowl, check for cancer ( nothing ) wash all organs and replace
Unfortunately ( or fortunately) my infection rate sores and I slip into a coma for 6 days.
This is where I swear the devil tryed to kidnap! I could hear heavy metal music constantly, and felt like the earth swallowed me up and where ever I went I was stepping on dead bodies everywhere. That was hell! If I open my eyes I could see three dimensions through the roof, so would close my eyes and blood and dead druggies everywhere.
Not ashamed to say I prayed for it to end .
After 6 days , I was aware of people, was the nursing staff from icu and my wife who the hospital had called to say it’s nearly over she must come quickly. They were all praying.
But only good die young
And I think snt Peter was busy watching World Cup so never answered my knock on the Perl gates!
After 2 weeks in icu, lost 11 kg and only ate fucken jelly. Never want to see that shit again!!!
Had somehow picked up sceptacemia!!
Lesson learned, every second of every day is valuable, don’t wast it. Never say or do anything nasty as you don’t get that second back.
I thank god for my incredible family and the community I live in that supported them and prayed for me . So still got couple rides left to do !

Ja, we were pretty worried, getting conflicting reports about your imminent demise.

Anyway, I see you're back to your wicked ways.

 

[Gumba]

Shelly beach hospital. Icu fantastic but the casualties fucken useless! Maybe mommy by pulling him by the scruff of the neck changed things
A fantastic ride was had and now just got to work on getting the taste of beer again

 

[roxenz]

Geesh! That was a rough ride! One to remember when you want to tell the grandkids scary stories...

 

[Dwerg]

Hectic! I've also had some very trippy times in hospital. None as bad as yours. One time I thought my hospital bed was wheeled up to a bar counter. Music and the works too

 

[RobCrouch]

That was an epic adventure, to say the least. Glad you survived ICU!

 

[Grootseun]

Well, that escalated quickly.
Glad you could share the tale with us.

 

[Gumba]

For some reason everyone takes a picture of their bike infront of a church????
At the top of ongeluks is a mountain called mount morosi! Near fort Hartley.
Chief Morosi had a son who was arrested for cattle theft, he escaped and they fortified the top of a mountain, the British sent plenty soldiers to scale the mnt and arrest Morosi and company. The British were slaughtered, their graves are still cared for at the little lodge below the mountain. It took a huge effort and a lot of men to eventually get up.