Always Seems Like Monday 🗓

What a relaxing day yesterday! Easy ride. Nothing to it. Today is Monday. The start of a grand week. Everything new. Everything fresh. An absolutely gorgeous day here. The 🐣🐔🦆🦅🕊🐧🐦🐥🐤 have woken me up at 🕠 to let me know 🤔🤷‍♂️ that I must get up I guess. So 🆙️ I am getting. Looking forward to the ride. Van Wyksdorp it shall be. That is the interim 🥅. Once there an assessment will be done on further proceedings. Need a bigger ride today to clear everything from the stiff 🦿 to rhe 🧠. It all needs a little adjustment. My stop here has been good. Kruisrivier. Super campsite. I was the only attendee last night. So quiet. So peaceful. There is much to be seen. Much to be ridden. I feel I have been looking at the coin from the wrong direction the last few days. 

Happy Monday everyone. I can say it will be a good week. Let's get through it together. Dusty roads today. A big climb, Rooiberg. I almost cannot wait wait. Off for the usual so I can get moving. 

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Yesterday at the 🚲🧱 there was a tyre that we 👀 at maybe throwing on the rear of my 🚲. The current one is nearly toast. It was brand new when I started this tour. 📃 note to self... don't buy maxxis again! So I was there this 🅰️Ⓜ️ having a gander. Whilst waiting for the owner, a lightie arrives with a wheel. I ask him his story. He says he is riding from the most northern point to Cape Agulhas. The most southern point. 🤔🤨 for real china? He says yip. 🐈 is 19 years old. He left on the 5th of January. Unfortunately we didn't chat much. His 🧓🏻👴🏻 were there to have a day with him. He was putting a new tyre on the rear 🤔🤨. 

Anyway we depart our ways.

Today for me was to go up Swartberg Pass. 🛌 at the top and then down the other side and 🛌 @ Kruisrivier tomorrow. While I need the shorter days and a bit of rest the downtime can be interesting. 

So I might see this youth tomorrow. He will be coming 🆙️ the ⛰ I have just done 😁😅. I would be interested to see his setup. Very different to mine. See if I can get a 🖼 of it tomorrow. Whilst his journey us point to point, mine has turned into a sight seeing trip 🔭. He seems reasonable and must be a fairly good 🚲.

It is bloody 🌬🌬 up here. My ⛺ has moved locations about 🔟 times. With me in it 🦧😳😲🐒🐵. It normally calms down after 🌝 set so 🤞🏻. 

I am starting to 🧠 about my return. I guess that's why I am a little gloomy. Not sure as usual if I will stay in ©️™️ or another trip. Not sure how long I can keep doing this. I am working on it.

That's it for this episode. Tune in again soon to see the outcome of...

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Feeee ry day

Strange dream night. After thinking about The Ghost Of Uniondale all day yesterday. I feel as though I know this woman. No... I did not have any 🍄🍄 last night.

So up and to it. The usual for a bush get up. All packed I am ready to roll. KA BOOM. Well more of a wheeeeeeee. It's downhill and my 🆓️body makes a 🆒️ whizzing sound. Got about 45 odd kilos to shed through before I can rest up for the rest of the rest day. 🆙️ a bit. 🆙️ a bit more. 🆙️ even more 🤬. Anyway it was very well rewarded at the top. A pass. Lunch bar! Looking over Prince Albert Valley. Beautiful. A little green island in the valley of brown. 

I descend. It's not long. Nor fast. Just enough to bring a satisfied grin to my old mug. The air is 🆒️. It makes me shiver. But I thoroughly enjoy it. The climb had made me work more than I wanted to for a fry yay. The valley is dealt with in reasonable time. No records here.One last little 🆙️ and then a relaxing ride into the town. Feels like home this gaff. I enjoy it here.

At the hotel enjoying a ☕ when a friend stops in to join me. How cool. This is what bike touring is about. Meeting like minded humans who enjoy chatting about what we do. It was grand. Once done it was down to the 🏕 hotel for an erection. Once completed the 🚿 gave me final relief that I was clean and sparkly. No bush camp tonight you dirty sod!

I am at the campsite watching Jerry Springer's sons mow the lawn. You cannot make this shit up. It is one of the funniest comedies I have ever watched. 

With the day to relax I sit here thinking about this trip. I can almost not adam and eve it that this is still the same trip where a few weeks ago I was looking at Hakskeen. Loving its heat and vastness. The absolute feeling of being alone. No one to share. No one to admire with. No one to talk to. It comes at a price. These trips drive me further and further out of society and into solitary. I am not a town person. I don't like the concept of money. It drives wedges between people. It takes control. It causes chaos. 

Enough rambling. I am still looking for sponsors for my riding. Or free gifts I can sell. Or free gifts I can use. Or actually just free booze and bike parts. 

It's Friday my lovelies. I hope you are all well. Happy. Content. Satisfied. So what if they mean the same thing. This is my blog 😉😘.

Tomorrow sees me going into the Swartberg for the night. It's just over 40 here in the pm. I will probably leave around 2. It's a sweat it out day. Then a sleep with the stars night. #excited

Be safe. Enjoy. Until we meet again. 

I miss you all.

G

Cool Shop

Sunset

Sunset

Lost 🧠

Yesterday was a hard day in the drivers 🪑. Luckily🤞🏻for me I ignored the captains advice and went straight 🔙🆙️ the way I had arrived. I know I missed a lot of 🆒️ trails in Plett but I will probably be 🔙 there some⌚. So anyhoo. Slog it back up to the turning 👉🏻. Yip a ➡️ this time. Quite a bit of unmemorable stuff. ➡️↘️↗️➡️↘️↘️➡️↗️⬆️🔄➡️↘️↗️➡️ comprendè? Eventually I get to the spot. Angie's G Spot. We found hers what about the rest of you 💃🏻🚶🏼‍♀️🤔🤷‍♂️🤯. I pull in. No one around. I leave. Usual bloody story I guess. Next is Prins Alfredpas. A 🆕️1️⃣ for me. I am cautioned 🛂 by the 🚺 at the padstal at the bottom that it is tough. I threw her with "I am tuffer" 😉🙃. She laughed, I laughed, her daughter laughed. I left. 

I took it pretty easy. Nothing steep. Just long. You go around every corner looking for some kind of summit ⛰. Nada. Nix. Nia. Fook all! Not much to do but keep going. It is pretty. Nice views, yeah I am going that slow 🐢🐛. A mistake I made was I should have found a place to 😴🛌 up there. But as usual I kept going. Finally after about 1️⃣ ➕ 3️⃣/4️⃣ ⏳ I reach the ⛰. It is quite spectacular. With no ⌚ for pleasantries I shift off. Into some disrespectful little town. A coke and chips please shop keep. 🥩🥩 I am in a hurry. The bounty is packed away.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr out of there. Ariva dache mofos. Off to Uniondale. It's been a long 🌞 by now. Quite a 🆒️ bit of road from there. Going like a 🐇. Into Uniondale. 🐒👀. This place. Yusses. I go to a few places. All rather expensive to sleep in a town that is quite frankly 💩. Eventually I find a gaff 🏯 which is about alff the others. Sold I 😭. Not too bad. Think the place was made pre jesus and they haven't quite updated it yet. But it had what I need 🛏🛋🚽🚿🪒🖥📶. So it served me well.

Today, boom bastic. Quick look in the shop before I 🍂. They have rewritable cd's yip. That's what they sell. I left sharply. 

It was a grand ride out. Nice views. Fun riding. Good 🛣. Just very pleasant. 

I had no real 🥅 today. Just ride. So I did. Long roads. Little 🚗🚘🚙🚚🚛🚐 I don't mean as in midgets cars I mean very few. Somewhere along the way I had to go to the 🚽 by the side of the road. This is a tricky 1️⃣. Get it right and 🏆 get it wrong and well all sorts of bad things can happen. Luckily today was 🏆👏🏻👏🏻. 

Into De Rust. What a little 💎 of a place. Clean 🧹 and neat. I like! What do you think... 🧠

Yes yes yes lunch bar. 🍔🍟. Good food too. Dee licous. Yum. Some young over enthusiastic waiter. Chill bra. 🧊🚶🏿‍♂️. No rush in Greg's 🌍. Lunch done. 🚀🚲. G O. 

It finds me here for the 🌚. I think about 50 from Prince Albert. I want to go and 😴🛌 on the 🔝 of the Swartberg Pass again. I did 2 trips ago and it was Fan Tastic. So tomorrow 🛌 Prince then up the ⛰. #excitedIam

That's all for now I guess. If you 👀 for rewritable 💽 then I can assist. 

Peace out people. 

Love. Peace. Kindness. Hope. 

G💙