Lesotho May 2019

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rubiblue

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KTM 790 Adventure R
The entire family of brothers (5 of us) and Dad have ridden our entire lives. My Dad introduced us to bikes when we were very little, as he used to race motocross/Enduro once he was over his Polo days. I had my first bike around the age of 5, and have ridden pretty much since then.

My Dad turned 70 last year and as a gift we sponsored a fully paid for ride with his boys when we could find the time. His 70th turned into a surprise wedding with my Mom, they were divorced for most of my life, around 30+ years or so, this sounds a bit odd, but it worked out great as now we don't need to split our holidays anymore between them - very handy and convenient.

Anyway, so the gift was in his hands to kick off planning, but several months past, so took I took responsibility to start the planning. It was to be 3 brothers, my Dad, his close mate Gary and one of my brothers friends Paul (the "invitees", this was brought up several times every time they got a bit shouty/demanding). We eventually settled on a date using the past few public holidays to limit time away from the office. I set a general plan, and got someone to make all the accommodation bookings. I live in JHB and the rest mostly in PE, with my younger brother residing in CT. We decided to hook up in tiffendell, loop our way through lesotho and depart our ways again from Tiffendell. The general thinking was light Adventure riding, due to some GS1200's in the mix and well as my Dad and Gary being "aged" and thus not wanting to sweat on any silly passes. Well planning off google earth, and previous Lesotho trips (and forgetting where we had actually been), proved to be been to the contrary.  ;D >:D :thumleft:

My younger brother Matthew, didn't have his own Adventure bike, and when we were originally planning the trip, Mike Glover showed interest, so when he had to decline due to work constraints, he offered his Africa Twin to Matthew.

Day 1, from JHB to TIffendell was pretty uneventful, I did mostly tar, ending on Lundeans Nek, and up one of the Ben10 trails into Tiffendell (cant recall the name of the pass, if it even has one, but it was pretty gnarly when being on your own and had quite a few gates, had to pick up the GS more than once and pulled something in my lower back - this was to be my only injury on the trip). They all met up in PE and headed to Tiffendell. From what i heard, it was long'ish but also uneventful.

As per usual protocol on a guy trip, first night was filled with drinking games (quarters) and many many beers and other dops. Next morning was a little blurry.
 

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