As is the norm, with the onset of teenage-dom comes more rebelliousness, more self awareness, less interaction with the household, and then hormones and all that. So before it got a proper hold of our youngest, and having a long weekend on us, I thought it would be a good time to break away for a night. Just the two us... the one that has a lot of growing up still to do, and off course my son, 13 year old Christo. To strengthen our bond, and just have a good father-son break.
The plan was to do as much dirt as possible, him on his XR125 and me on the LC GSA.
So after packing a few things in the boxes we said goodbye to mom, at least she had her mom over to keep her company. Off course my MIL visiting had nothing to do with the timing of this trip :
First piece of dirt was just past Zwartkops raceway and Erasmia, when we got to Skurweberg. There's this beautiful temple along the way, so we stopped there quickly to admire the architecture and snap a photo. Entered the grounds briefly, and had a chat with what appeared to be the groundskeeper. Friendly chap.
At the (largest) Hennops crossing the low-water bridge is in such a bad state that the road is closed off on either side. Luckily bikes get through easily and we could just ride over and continue. Cose to Hennops 4X4 trail we were back onto tar, and shot left to ride up next to Necsa towards Broederstroom. Off course the hunger started setting in properly by this time, so we stopped at the Wimpy for a lekker filling breakfast, and set off again towards the cradle of human kind but sticking to dirt roads.
At one point we were wondering how the road we were one could even be on my GPS, it was so unused it had almost grown to a little single track. At the point we were to join the bigger dirt road, however, our road ended abruptly with a fence crossing over it. Ahh, so that's why it seems disused now. So we back tracked and took what seems like a road leading back to the main dirt, and in the process it appears we crossed over some private land. The (presumed) land owner wsn't to fussed though, waiving at us from a distance. What a friendly chap. Anyway, we managed to reach Scheerpoort (or is that Skeerpoort?) and after a water break continued again towards... Breedtsnek!
The plan was to do as much dirt as possible, him on his XR125 and me on the LC GSA.
So after packing a few things in the boxes we said goodbye to mom, at least she had her mom over to keep her company. Off course my MIL visiting had nothing to do with the timing of this trip :
First piece of dirt was just past Zwartkops raceway and Erasmia, when we got to Skurweberg. There's this beautiful temple along the way, so we stopped there quickly to admire the architecture and snap a photo. Entered the grounds briefly, and had a chat with what appeared to be the groundskeeper. Friendly chap.
At the (largest) Hennops crossing the low-water bridge is in such a bad state that the road is closed off on either side. Luckily bikes get through easily and we could just ride over and continue. Cose to Hennops 4X4 trail we were back onto tar, and shot left to ride up next to Necsa towards Broederstroom. Off course the hunger started setting in properly by this time, so we stopped at the Wimpy for a lekker filling breakfast, and set off again towards the cradle of human kind but sticking to dirt roads.
At one point we were wondering how the road we were one could even be on my GPS, it was so unused it had almost grown to a little single track. At the point we were to join the bigger dirt road, however, our road ended abruptly with a fence crossing over it. Ahh, so that's why it seems disused now. So we back tracked and took what seems like a road leading back to the main dirt, and in the process it appears we crossed over some private land. The (presumed) land owner wsn't to fussed though, waiving at us from a distance. What a friendly chap. Anyway, we managed to reach Scheerpoort (or is that Skeerpoort?) and after a water break continued again towards... Breedtsnek!
