Monday. October 11. Day 73

A slight rain and strong wind made the session somewhat difficult today. Puddy pulled in behind the van to catch the slip stream and tried to avoid the weather. The conditions were a bit rough on the Pud man, but he kept pushing hard and managed a total of 25km’s for the day.

Some surprises on the road kept him motivated. Gerhard, the mate we met while staying in PE drove past us again and stopped to say hi. A while later another old friend from CT stopped him in his tracks to say hi and give some encouragement.

When we finally made it to Mosselbay we ducked out of the rain into the local skate/surf shop. And to our surprise we found a stunning little wood indoor mini ramp providing us with some great fun and skating.

Wednesday. September 22. Day 54

Twice the fun, double the pain....

We packed up from The Gecko Lodge to make way to our next base camp, St. Francis and to skate the day’s k’s into J bay.

First we had to stop and purchase a new 3g connection as the previous one broke over the weekend. Puddy was blessed with the skating today with lovely weather and road surface as smooth as a baby’s bottom. The conditions notched up our average to between 26 and 32 km/h. Not only was the road smooth but rocked with a natural quarter pipe alongside it providing some awesome fun skating.

Puddy managed to bail not once but twice on this leg. The irony of it all. Not one bail has been sustained by Puddy on this trip and then on this day he managed two. First he stepped in front of one of his wheels and falling quite hard. After that his wheels caught on a gap in the road ensuring a solid slam. Despite eating tar Puddy had all the reason to smile. First, after arriving at the quicksilver shop we received our new SKATE FOR CHANGE SHIRTS (more of that later) and he got to skate the indoor wood bowl inside the shop. After all of that, when we headed back to Cape St Francis a huge welcoming sign protruded from the ground as we entered making Puddy forget about the slight injuries.

SKATE FOR CHANGE SHIRTS ARE AVAILABLE NATION WIDE @ R150 from Quicksilver. email human@skateforchange.co.za with details and we will get back to you with how we will send it your way.

Such a great day on the road .