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and laughing at other’s experiences over
the years....After a fully catered dinner
and a short speech by our Roam Africa IT
guru Andre, the fun continued, we met an
American lady from New York by the name
of Pat, who is a volunteer at Ganora Lodge,
she has travelled the world, worked on sloth
rehabilitation centres, performed root canal
treatment on a polar bear, (the bear was
unconscious, not even Chuck Norris would
do root treatment on a fully conscious polar
bear), she operates off a website called www.
workaway.info, check it out if you want to
tour the world on a strict budget, her stories
could keep her going for hours.
Sunday dawned all too soon, our group
packed the bikes and departed for home
after saying cheers to everyone else going in
different directions, now minus Tom who had
a week to get home, and a very exiting route
and plan, we refuelled in Middelburg again ,
had breakfast in Colesburg, myself and Tony
swapped bikes, I wanted his and Michelle’s
opinions of the XR, and enjoy it they did...
Michelle reckoned she could see better
because the XR 1000 has a higher pillion
saddle, she enjoyed the wind protection as
long as her helmet was not directly behind
her dad’s helmet, but preferred the saddle
of the KTM 1190 Adv. I got my XR back in
Bloemfontein, I had now become very used
to it, I loved the power, the quickshifter, the
response of that awesome 4 cylinder motor,
returning this bike to BMW was going to be
very difficult....
We arrived back home mid afternoon,
somehow shaving an hour off the time we
took on Friday for the same distance...
The first Year End Roam was now under
the belt, a fantastic weekend, well organised,
no issues, it was great to meet those that I
had not met before, great to chat to those
that I already knew, sad for those that had to
cancel, next year is going to be difficult, we
will have to at least equal the experience, not
sure how we will better it.....
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