De Wildt – 12 January 2008

Tomcat, Spanky and yours truly set out at a fiery pace to 3-Fences. From the Morula Sun, down Coconuts, along the river, through the Twisties to the 3-Fences shop. Probably record time for us. It was awesomely crazy!!! A couple coldies and we hit the river bed back towards civilization. At the usual exit point we decided to stay in the river and see how far we could ride it. What a fantastic idea. We had an awesome ride. The river bed changed from thick river sand, to small stream, to rocks, back to river sand, back to small stream, …. The cycle continued for kilometers. Eventually we hit a point where we had to climb out up a steep bank, that was a little challenge all of its own. Once out it was a great little bundu-bash in the general direction of where we thought we needed to be which is always great fun. We eventually found ourselves on the path to the pipeline road near the police station. We decided to take a sharp 90 degree turn and check out what the old black trail around the air strip looked like since we hadn’t done that in many moons. All was good until the trail got wetter and wetter and the mud thicker and thicker. Those that know the dangers of the black clay near the police station will know exactly what I’m talking about. After a while we decided to bash it straight across the pathless veld and get off the trail, it was just getting way to thick and slick. After bashing through some mud-slinging veld, we eventually found ourselves at the road that headed back towards the Morula via the Coconut/Long Rocks road from the other direction. Out of the corner of my eye, as I was passing, I noticed what looked like a great drinks shop. And with almost a full speed u-turn, we found ourselves at the Sunshine Tarven (yes, Tarven) where the beers still had ice on the bottles!!!! Needless to say we hung around there for a while before the final burn back to the hotel. Another great ride to notch into my great ride stick.

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