An(m)other New Year’s solo

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oo7

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Monday, 31 Dec 2012

Last year I decided to attend Mother’s informal but by now annual “New Year’s Bash”, this time held in Hanover. I enjoyed the get together, especially the company and ended up doing a few days solo ride in the Karoo – check out some pics here: https://wilddog.net.za/forum/index.php?topic=87432.msg1734407#msg1734407

So when Mother announced his end of 2012 Carnarvon plans, I decided to make the effort again. As with the previous trip, this was the exact spot where I hit dirt again for the first time, but now exactly 364 days later

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I left Cape Town on the 31st, later than planned at around 13h00 as I, among other things, had to turn back to get my passport. According to the GPS I had more than 600km to go to Carnarvon, so I had no option but to push on. First stop for fuel was in  

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From here it was nice gravel again through Fraserburg, and then another stretch of good road to Carnarvon. With 34km’s to go,

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I figured I would have enough light left to make it to Carnarvon, so I could stop to admire the sun setting for the last time in 2012:

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And what a sunset it was!

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I arrived at the hotel with the last light, where Mother greeted and sorted me / my room out. The whole town was full of ALL the people in the Karoo. The farmers were having a traditional new year’s sokkie inside the hotel, the locals were at each other outside, and I was entertained by Mother, Mrs Mother,  Dawido, Sean, Piston Pete, DirtYarpie and Heimer until just after midnight, when I decided it was time for some beauty sleep after a long day.
 
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