Wednesday 27th

Yesterday was a good day. I was up at 5. I know right. WTF. Anyhoo. I get 🧦🥾🕶🦺🩳. Pack up the ⛺. Bid the 🐢🐢🐢 farewell and get moving. Should be 6️⃣0️⃣ odd to BW. Want to be early. Get a room for the night. Remember 3 days no 🚿 = 👃🥺🤢. It is just more magnificent rriding.The scenery is top class. This road is definitely to be returned to one day. Then the pass. Descent. Fast. Fun. I have been needing this. About 🔟 kms long. Half way down you  notice the fence on the right has extended upwards and is fully ⚡⚡. The Karoo national park. I see a few 🦓🦌 probably not reindeer. More our sort of buck. It is truly grand. 

Unfortunately a dead 🦎 too. Big one. About a meter long. This is to be the start of my dead animal sights❗😥. Then the N1. About 2kms and I am in town. 9ish o🕰. Excellentè. Breakfast at wimpy. Ooooooooo delicious. 🍳🍳🥓🥓🍞🍞🍟. It goes down well. Quick 🚲 around town and I am booked in for the night. 🦶🆙️ for the day. My body is getting sore. My ass is eina. Luckily no saddle sores but the sit 🦴 are getting painful. My 🤚 too. These long days are beginning to take their toll.

After a somewhat good rest, it is a long shower this morning before I get going. It is welcomed. If they didn't have a 💧💧 shortage before, they do now. Then the day gets started. A short cut to the N12. Joe road. Quiet. 1 🚗 that's it. Nice. Then the N12. Not too bad. 🚗🚘🚙🏎 ➕🚛🚚. I push on. 

Then 😓😭 a 🍞🐢. Shortly after another. Both been hit. This kind of thing makes me sad. I got thinking about it for hours after. I guess just an accident. Who knows.

The 🌬🦲 returns. It's not a good day. I am sore again. To add to the painful ass and hands my right under my armpit is sore too now. I didn't know you started to fall apart at this age. 😅😅. So be it. We can't control everything I guess. 

So here I am for the 🌚. In the bush. It's beautiful. A riverbed. It's fresh out ❄. The doors are closed but the roof is off. Full 🌚 tonight. Some days are a bit of a struggle. Today was one of them. But no matter how each day goes, at the end of it I am very grateful for this trip. My learnings. My peace. My time. My life. My bike. My decisions. I am grateful for all.

Sleep tight lovely people. 

Chat soon.

G💙