Day1: Pretoria to Orania (703km)
It’s is before dark when we leave Pretoria. The plan is to be on Orania at 16:00.
We had a sterling time the night before at Theotherguy’s house with his brother, sister and her significant other coming over for a pizza night, photo-share, and his mother’s hilarious stories about being a teacher on a short-ish temper. What a great bunch they are!
From Pretoria we take the N1 South towards Jo-burg where we get on to the N12 South.
It is early in the morning, the road is open, the weather is clear and we make good progress, but I am becoming aware of some short-comings in my gear. My gloves were not keeping my hands warm despite the salesman’s promise:”summer gloves with winter inners is fine for winter”...-bullshit!
By the time we drive into Potch I can’t feel my hands.