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.

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With only 10 km's left to skate into Bloem, Ruan and mates joined in again. The wind was blowing from behind and the road was a lot smoother than the day before. There was big and seriously rough uphill in town but fortunately was followed by one 'lekker' downhill. Puddy asked that we all skate together for safety reasons but the downhill was to tempting and Ruan chased down like demon. Puddy reached a speed of 43 km/h. I can only image the speed Ruan reached.

After rolling through the streets of Bloem, we joined Ofm at their studio were radio DJ Riaan did a interview with Puddy. This was great fun as Riaan got the

studio stuntman "Mal Jan" to try the tricks Puddy was attempting. Puddy took it slow at first as not to make to hard for "Mal Jan". Puddy did some nice airs and grabs while being hooked up

to the studio with a wireless mic continuing the interview with Ofm in the car park were the ramps were set up.

Saterday was spent cleaning the van and fooling around on the local mini ramp. Max, who recently started skateboarding again (after embarking on this trip) did a rock to fakie on the ramp, after taking some solid slams.

The guest house where some of the guys are staying treated us to a lovely braai and some insight for the road ahead.

Bloem's local watering hole Die Mystic Boer held us a nice party with bands Submachine, Juggernuaght and lekker local band Apeklap who dedicated a song to us. Ruan wrote a story on us for his blog; http://www.theobscenelyloud.co.za/ which created some more awareness for the cuase. Bloem has defintly treated us well on our trip to thus far.