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  1. AbelvanderMerwe

    Kaokoland: a perspective from a pink bike

    Fantastic photos Zanie and Lance. Makes me tired once again just looking them.  Can't we repeat the trip?
  2. AbelvanderMerwe

    Kaokoland...makes you thirsty...for more!

    Thanks Henk for this insight - next time (if there ever should be one) I am definitely going to have the skill to do everything on the trip. Abel
  3. AbelvanderMerwe

    Hoozit from Bloed en OMO

    Laat weet asb wie. Sal interesant wees. Daar het seker al 30 mense onder die naam deelgeneem. Daar was die naweek weer 10 (vier spanne) van ons by die Swaziland resies.
  4. AbelvanderMerwe

    Kaokoland: a perspective from a pink bike

    Thanks Zanie for some great photo journalism. It was a pleasure and inspiration to see you and Lance come zooming past me on the gravel highways - the epitomy of coolness and ease.
  5. AbelvanderMerwe

    Hoozit from Bloed en OMO

    Smaak in jou mond as jy harde 1,5 of 5 km hardloop - aldus my seun wat op skool middelafstand gehardloop het. Naam van my Avontuur Resies span sedert 2007.  Heel toepaslik.
  6. AbelvanderMerwe

    Hoozit from Bloed en OMO

    Dag se almal: Bought and rode my first bike (KTM 1290 adventure) in fit of near insanity two years ago at age 65 (response to long time dream to travel far and wide). Did not turn out too bad as my pillion, Elsabe (mother of Janco of Specialised Adventures) is fearless (jumped on before I had...
  7. AbelvanderMerwe

    Oubones’s journey via Kaokoland to a new life!

    Stem volkome saam. Vooreg gehad om laaste stuk deur sand vlaktes na Val Zyl's kamp saam hom te ry (altwee bikes olie vreetend). Eintlik het hy my gelei want my GPS was heetemaal deurmekaar ek rigting befoeterd. En hy met n selfoon!
  8. AbelvanderMerwe

    Oubones’s journey via Kaokoland to a new life!

    Only when his R1 is set to "A" for Afrikaans.
  9. AbelvanderMerwe

    Kaokoland...makes you thirsty...for more!

    Well summed up Hardy. Day 1 to Spitzkoppe was my first "dirt ride".  Lucky for me Dirt Rat took it easy and regularly stopped for a smoke break under a sparsely shaded tree with all the casualness of a Gunston advert - whilst the others raced ahead - and was available to share valuable advice...
  10. AbelvanderMerwe

    Kaokoland...makes you thirsty...for more!

    Dis die een wat my weggejaag het oorlaat my XR650 te veel olie gelek het (cover kraak opegedoen op Heartbreak Hill op pad na Van Zyls kamp).
  11. AbelvanderMerwe

    Kaokoland...makes you thirsty...for more!

    Chopperpilot thanks vir jou deel aan een van die beste tye wat ek gehad het. Sien uit om al die ander karakters se mannewales te herbeleef op jou RR.
  12. AbelvanderMerwe

    Oubones’s journey via Kaokoland to a new life!

    Oubones jy stoicisme (is dit Afrikaans?) tydens herhaalde meganiese probleme in die woestyn  sal my by bly - maar, wag, ek hardloop jou storie vooruit.
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