Race Is On

The reason for my ✌🏻 day stop here is simple. Worked it out yet? Oh dear. Let me explain. Last ⌚ I was here I was informed about a route around the dam, over another pass and then back here 🗺. All in about 38kms. Now I am on something called strava. It's an app that records your performance and 🚲 accomplishments. Some rodney sole had the winning ⌚. So my trip here was to 👀 if I could beat him. 

This morning I absolutely gunned it. I was fresh. Well fed. Full power. Bike in top condition. Rider in some condition. Down towards the dam. I have no suspension so it was probably a bit more careful than I would have liked. Then round the side. Still feeling good I gave it the gass. Then arrives a fairly respectable hill. Yusses but I thought by the time go to the top I had died of corona. I couldn't breathe. I could hardly keep pedaling. Luckily it was down a pass for long enough to catch my breath and regroup. Right on to the joe again. Giving it all the beans I had I gassed it to the Simonskloof turnoff. Another short climb, through the gate and back.

Well I have no 📶 here so I don't know what happened yet. I think 🤔 I did a 1.38 and he did a 1.43. So not sure. Need to update when I get 📶 again and 👀 what is what and who is who. 

I am resting now 🛌 as I have not ridden that tempo for ages and I feel shot. So once I have seen the results I will either tell you or not. Quite simple really 😅😅.

Okay off for a 🚿. Chat soon my friends. I look forward to 🍻🍻 soon. Probably under 2 weeks I will be back. This ⌚ more effort in to finding a 👨🏻‍🔧👨🏻‍💻 or maybe not. Let's see. 

Until then ☮

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Oh Dear!

So my plan tomorrow was to move one up to Matroosberg. I have been informed by a camper who has just arrived that it is full. Apparently walentines weekend or something 😳😅💔 ka boom. So will just have to 👀 what happens tomorrow. 

Yesterday I 👈🏻 Montagu. Can't stay there for long. It's a town and not much fun. I had this placed booked down for ✌🏻 days anyway. Will get to that❕❗ So out of town. Not much crappening. It's a fairly 🆗️ road. A little busier than maybe I like. Once  about 2️⃣0️⃣ or so kilometers it gets much 🤫. Perfect. As I am settling in it arrives. ⛰. Burgerspas. Not lunch.. an actual pass called that. Absolutely no cuisine shops around. Please dear 🛐 tell me why it is called that 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️😅. With the 🌡 rising anyway who has got ⌚ to eat 🤷‍♂️. I pedal like a madman. I have done this pass 🅱️4️⃣. The summit is reached and a sigh of relief is exhaled. Quick 🛑 in at the shop for a coke and the rest of the journey is completed. It is a joe road with a few slight ↗️ and ↘️. Not much to see really. 

Once at the entrance 🚧 you can 👀 why I have returned. Absolute ☮ and serenity. I pay my dues at the reception and set up 🏕🏖. The rest of the day just blends in and I relax to the max. It's a very good 🌚🛌. 

Fetch 👉🏻 🙄

Sunrise

Beautiful House

The Continuation

I got 🆙️ to the most beautiful 🌞 rise this morning. Packing was fun. Still managing to find thorns a plenty. Once done it was back down to the 🍴 less the 🔪  that led me the wrong way. About 1️⃣8️⃣ I think to the 🛣. The ®️6️⃣2️⃣. Yip the road Ronnie's sex shop is on. It was ⬅️ turn. The wind had dwindled down and was allowing me to get somewhere. 🙏🛐. 

It was about another 1️⃣5️⃣ or so to Barrydale. Unpon arriving Barry or Dale were nowhere to be found. I did st🅾️🅿️ the garage for a coke. All done I continued my ride for the day. First to the onslaught was Tradouwpas. I mean how much luck can I have❓ Another 🤬 pass. Yay! It is dealt with painfully. All the aches from yesterday have resumed work. I feel grateful. Once at the summit a little bit of joy makes it's way out. 

From here on it is probably another 50 or so kilometers until my destination. Sort of a rolling road. Absolutely magical if you don't have any 🎒🛍. Another story if are carrying 15 kilograms of stuff 🧦🦺🩳🩲🧤🧢🛠⚒🔩⚙ etcetera. One thing that happened that blew my 🧦 off was a particular 🚛. 

In this country if you are descending a ⛰ in a truck then you must go into low range gears so that if the brakes break you don't go flying down the hill and kill everyone. Comprendè. Well until now I haven't 👀 this happen. As I am descending one of the moderate ⛰ this 🚛 is going rather slow. Much to the annoyance of about 5 🚘🚙🚗🚙🚘 behind it. I give absolute credit to this dude for driving correctly. Thank you Sir 🎩. 

Anyway. So here I am. Back in Montagu. Off to Simonskloof tomorrow. No 📶 up there. 2 days maybe 🤷‍♂️. 

Today was actually a really good day. 4 hours 45 minutes riding. 99.68 kilometers 😅😅. I feel great. Much better than a few days ago. So I am happy.

Sleep tight all. 🅱️💊 safe. 

Chat soon. 

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Montagu

Wow yesterday was a tough 🚲. The 🥇 part was fun. Down into Calitzdorp. A superb ride. Little ⛰ but nothing to destroy the 🦵🏻. 

Spar for some goodies 🍞🍔🍟🌭🥛🚰 lunch bar 🤦‍♂️. Having eaten some of the bounty it was full speed ahead.  A short meander to the bottom of Rooiberg Pass and this is probably where the joy left me 👋. It was getting into the triple digits 🌡 again. Probably around 1️⃣8️⃣ teeeeeee. Well it was warm. I barely managed the climb. I have done it before but last ⌚ it was refreshingly overcast ☁️⛅. No such luck yesterday! Anyway once at the top ⛰ the views were breathtaking. Yes I was still catching my breath. The descent. Well again... yay!!! I can't really descend that fast. I have luggage. One item being a 🖐, yes five liter bottle of 🈯️ h2ooooh! You 👀 I can never be 💯% sure on whether I need it or not. Rather too much than too little she 😭. 

Past Rooiberg Lodge. Not camping there this time. Noooooo. Much better idea it has. So I continue. Van Wyksdorp. Wow. 😲. What a 💩🕳. I am guided 👉🏻 to the shop. A coke. They have no water. No one in that town has money for water. It comes from the 🚰. And I concur. So off again. I don't really have a plan yet. Was going to go to Herbertsdale. I keep pushing. To my good fortune a respectable 🌬🦲 has arrived. It just keeps getting warmer. 🥳. I get to the turn off. Herbertsdale straight or Montagu ➡️. Without stopping I turned ➡️. I can't explain why. So now I am going down this road with the mountain on my left. I mean it is pretty. But why I did this I don't know 🤷‍♂️. Searching new areas this was supposed to be. 

I am doing what I can to keep moving. The 🦵🏻 are sore. My bum is burning and now 🤯🥳 my ✋🏻 has decided to be painful too 🕺🏼. I feel like used parts. The ⏳ keep rolling by. I suddenly get a little nervous that I have not found a 🛌 spot. I get a section of road that has a ⬅️ or a ➡️ turning with the same ending. I choose ⬅️. About 4kms down what the hell do I find 🤔🤷‍♂️ well I'll tell you. It's a 🔒🚧. I know right. If I unpack my bike it will be dark once I have gotten over and repacked it. There is absolutely no other way around this gate. So I turn around... every now and then I fall apart. Just kidding. About a kilometer I see a fairly decent place to sleep. Bit of grass etc. 

So there is where it was to be. Except was it 🦧🐒. Nooooooooo. I had managed to miss the thorn 🌳 that was growing right next to me. So guess what I was doing last night? Come on guess. Okay okay. I was removing thorns that had pierced the bottom of my ⛺ and injected me with 5000 neurons of pain. I think I found them all so no worries for the next person that 🛌 there.

TBC...