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1 hour ago, copperhead said:

Not many jobs around. I don't want to sit at home crying. Riding my bike seems to stop the tears. Hopefully I will find work before the end of the year.Ā 

Yeah,its tough.This friggen covid has stuffed up everything.I hope you find something soon.What do you do for a living apart from providing us mere mortals with exquisite pictures of your journey's

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Had a bit of an infection, so stayed off the bike since Tuesday. These pics are torture. Maybe tomorrow....

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36 minutes ago, copperhead said:

Merweville. Headwind from the N1. I stopped and tried to cry. The wind was so strong my tears dried before they left my eyes.

Every time I come to a small Karoo village I fall just that little bit more in love with it.Ā 

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If you have been to Merweville, then you have been on the road less traveled! Respect!

Edit: I lived there for a year or two as a toddler. My father was (briefly) a teacher there. Later, while in junior school in Prince AlbertĀ (in the "year beyond") we occasionally played rugby against Merweville. This was their field at its very best!Ā 

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1 hour ago, copperhead said:

Merweville. Headwind from the N1. I stopped and tried to cry. The wind was so strong my tears dried before they left my eyes.

Every time I come to a small Karoo village I fall just that little bit more in love with it.Ā 

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Post. Of. The. Month.Ā 

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10 hours ago, copperhead said:

The HOFF (Steve of course) was here last night. I didn't see him but heard him until midnight. No town too small or too big. #respect

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flip ... till midnight .. .that noise must have kept you up!

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1 hour ago, DJR said:

If you have been to Merweville, then you have been on the road less traveled! Respect!

Edit: I lived there for a year or two as a toddler. My father was (briefly) a teacher there. Later, while in junior school in Prince AlbertĀ (in the "year beyond") we occasionally played rugby against Merweville. This was their field at its very best!Ā 

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Fake photo .... you are so old they never had colour photo's back then!

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On 5/13/2021 at 8:44 AM, copperhead said:

Swartberg Pass into Prince Albert. Slept on the mountain. Nice to get to shower today.Ā 

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I simply love your evocative images. Two of my fave memories are from that Swartberg Pass peak.

  1. Cycling up (edit: from Oudtshoorn on my Alpina) toĀ camp solo in the snow on a clear full moon night twenty six years ago. Spectacular. Ā Snow, clear full moon, solitude, it's still an almostĀ surreally beautiful memory decades later. That pass isĀ Thomas Baines' seventeenth and last, and most spectacularĀ pass IMO.Ā 
  2. Looking down on a lightning storm in the cloudsĀ below us while picnicking at the edge of the forest on the PrinceĀ Albert side of the peakĀ with my young kids, also afterĀ snow.
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Jeez Merweville is the saddest place I have been to in SA. It really is bleak and dreary with only a pretty church building to brighten it up a bit.

Sorry this was in reply to DJR earlier post. Still trying to figure out the new improved Bikehub????

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