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Warm fire, cold drinks and he great Karoo skies. What can be better than this?
We're camping at De Hoek in the Swartberg Mountains although we didn't know that we'd be here a few hours back. How's that for an impromptu ride?


Rewind to lunch, Friday 25 June.
Wave Rider pops in for a visit. He's had a horrible week (I can relate) and needs to get away to clear his head. Just ride somewhere, go sit under the Karoo skies and forget about everything. What a wonderful prospect, but it's kinda short notice.


A few phone calls are made, panniers and tents loaded and before we knew it we're making a last stop in Oudtshoorn for tonight's provisions. Our little group has grown to four with Dusty joining us a little bit later.
Wave Rider - Suzuki V-strom
Cassie - Kawasaki KLX250
Grysalp - Honda XL500

and myself on the trusty TransAlp:

A very diverse group of bikes - just the way we like it! Grysalp bought that XL500 new in 1980. In February this year it was 30 years old and still going strong.


Camp set up and the woes of the week forgotten. We are truly fortunate to be able to break away like this.

And the woes of the week were truly forgotten. There were cheers and laughter all over - jokes, stories, even some amateur stargazing.


Early morning campsite scenes:

Beautiful day, but we knew that a cold front would move in before nightfall, so we'd have to make the most of the day.

We had to head back home today, but we decided to do it the "Long Way Round". Such a cliche, but so much better than heading straight home.

So the bikes were packed and the plans were set. In stead of heading South back to George we'd head North, over Swartberg Pass, to Prins Albert and from there head East to Klaarstroom, South to De Rust and then back to George via Dysselsdorp and Paarde Poort. Nice one day outride.

(We also stopped at another undisclosed location not part of this report - all about that stop will be revealed later in the Watermeid report.


De Hoek is situated close to the bottom of Swartberg Pass so the ride was scenic right from the start:
2 comments:
Super ride TR!
Super ride report TR. Was me and my wife on the Tenere on Swartberg-pass!
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