Thursday. October 07 . Day 69

On the way to George...

Started this Thursday with a mellow downhill where Puddy reached an average speed of 45km/h. What a way to start the session.

As the old saying goes:“For every up there is a down.” In this case, after the down an up awaited. It’s inevitable. As Puddy reached the bottom off his starting downhill he faced a super uphill, demotivating him somewhat.

The scenery around this part of the country is fantastical. A thick morning mist enshrouding the valley had us feeling like characters from the Lord of the Rings movie.

We encountered some Metro cops again. Twice actually, luckily they were very cool and supportive in both instances.

The afternoon Puddy was treated for all his hard skating up until now. The Hydro Spa in Wilderness treated him to a much earned massage to soothe and repair his aching muscles.

Thanks to Anne’s Place in Plet who cared for our accommodation whilst we were there.

Stats for the day:

Top speed 54km/h

Average speed 21 19 km/h on road, down hills 39 km/h

Distance skated 26km

Tour distance 1459 km

Tomorrow the team enjoys another off day, time to get our wits together for the final couple of hundred kilometres that awaits us.

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Monday. September 27. Day 59.

Up and at it again as we went out to the High Wat to continue our mission. From Jo Burg to Cape Town on a skateboard in order to raise funds and create awareness for the SOS Children’s Villages across South Africa.

Packing up we were delighted to find our 3G connection enabling us to update the blog and get back in contact.

On the N2 heading to Kareedouw we were unfortunate to find that the surface was rough and practically impossible to skate that and the wind had decided to keep on blowing like it had some kind of vendetta against us. Puddy kept pushing and managed to reach the days target.

The scenery is also started to change again as we head into a more mountainous and forest like conditions.

We are now stationed in Kareedouw for the next tow days.

August 30. Day 31

Between Borders.......

Monday started as usual, “another great day of venturing into the great unknown”. Thanked the nice ol’ people form “Ou Vellies” (pictured) and started skating towards Venterstad.

We started skating just on the other side of the bridge were we left off yesterday. This meant that we are skated into the Eastern Cape but base camp is still in the Northern Cape.

What we hoped for, a good smooth road, was replaced by yet another rough and even road including some big up hills.

We ended up 12km’s before Venterstad and pushed a total of 31km’s for the day and can feel the summer is sneaking up on us. The time on the road is starting to get hot. You can see Puddy in the pictures skating shirtless.

We made our way back to base camp, The Glasgow Pont Hotel (in the Northern Cape), pleased with the unknown road we conquered.