THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
TAKING turns with some likeminded mates riding rough out front on dual-purpose motorcycles and then later, switching places and taking it easy in the sweeper 4×4 vehicle at the back of the convoy, might be the best way to explore the back roads of South Africa.
The idea was originally born of necessity. The elderly man I’d been guiding annually around the Karoo had suffered some health challenges not long before we were due to set off on a tour of the Tankwa Karoo and Northern Cape.
Although he was fit to travel, he was still a bit fragile and I thought it best to ask my fiancée and travelling partner, Annette, if she wouldn’t mind following us in my recently purchased Pajero iO.
Not only did she love the idea, she spent the few days before our departure thinking how she could feed the two of us on the side of the road and broke into a frenzy of cooking and baking that saw us fattened up every time we stopped to take in views, or
