Prince Albert

Last weekend, whilst idling my time away at the Buff, I had a choice... spend the day watching loads of people drink, get drunk, make idiots of themselves and bugger up their bikes, or disappear into the wild blue yonder and go adventuring. The latter won out.

Oudtshoorn Dual Ride : Advanced group : Geoff

The Burn Out

Bikes : 18

2010, Another year, another great weekend outing with YOUR Club : Come and join the fun, 3 rides to choose from, bring your partner with you!!!! Numbers are limited...........snooze you............you know what.. So many rides so little time............ In order to get 2010 off to a great start, Andy, Anne, Brian and I are arranging a "Dual" ride to Prince Albert over the weekend of 20th to 21st February 2010 sleeping in Oudtshoorn. The plan was to stay in Prince Albert however good value accommodation for a large group is not easy to find in this quaint little town. Brian's Messengers group will obviously be a "road" ride, Anne & Andy Connell have offered to take the "off road" beginners group and I will take the more experienced "dirties" group.

===Day 1: Cape Town – Bonnievale=== We set out late Monday afternoon for Bonnievale at 17h00. The weather was good…..that is no pumping cape doctor, “anything else is good in my book”, but once we hit the R60 to Robertson the cape doctor gave us a woes snot klap making it difficult to maintain 140km/h. We were packed reasonably light, only the absolute essentials for a one night camp out, no rain gear, a cell phone to use for any major repairs, and a basic supper of noodles with tinned tuna. (The rest of our meals were to be had on route.) Our first night was with friends on their wine farm on the Breede River. After a really good braai and good wine it was off to bed before many dusty back roads to tomorrows destination….Die Hel!

Holgatpas - het so "bietjie" werk nodigOorsig Dit het begin een aand, ver van die huis, oor n bottel wyn in Lone Hill (Jhb). Maruis van die Strand en ek van Westbrook, n “one motorbike village” in KZN (30 km noord van Durban). Kom ons doen n trip, n epic. Nie lank gevat om te reel. Die plan was maklik, ek sal Saterdag van Westbrook ry na Oos Londen (oorslaap), my vrou optel by die lughawe 12h00 in PE, ontmoet Maruis, Frits en Sabrina (van Belfast in Mpumalanga wat sal treiler na Stilbaai) in Keurbooms by die Sarie Marais woonstelle wat ons goeie vriende Willy en Lutrie Viljoen van Pretoria tot ons beskiking gestel het. Van daar sal ons oor Prins Alfred pas na Uniondale ry, die Kammanassie Rivier volg na De Rust waar ons vir Noël en René van Rensburg van Riversdal sal ontmoet, dan oor die Swartberg pas na Gamkaskloof (Die Hel), oorslaap, terug uit die Gamkaskloof, links by die afdraai na Prince Albert. Van daar deur Meiringspoort terug na Uniondale, proviant koop en die pad vat. Na so 15 km regs na die Baviaanskloof. Slaap by Boetie en Henriette Terblanche in Aalwynbak grot. Vat die pad deur Baviaans en dan was die plan redelik oop totdat ek vir Magda (vroulief) weer by PE lughawe aflaai en my pad terug maak deur die Transkei na Westbrook.

We (JdJ & Tracey) did this trip whilst our friends Wayne and Joe embarked on a 5500km trip from Cpt to Jhb, Lowveld, KZN, Garden Route and back.....we wanted to be with them but could not stay away from home for so long and therefor decided on a shorter trip.... The plan was to from Cpt go to Struisbaai, from there to Prince Albert, then to Addo to the Elephant Park then Bathurst to visit a friend, then to somewhere between PE and Struisbaai and for the last day to Franschoek on the 25th Dec for Xmas lunch with family - all more or less about 2000km's. Day 1- Cpt to Struisbaai We have done this so many times that we can almost do this trip with closed eyes. We decided to stop at the botanical garden just outside Kleinmond for a light lunch.