Travel can be so random. In determining what the next trip might be, you could sit for hours, even days, thinking about it. Then, suddenly it’s there. For us, the lightbulb moment involved sheep, or more specifically, a story about the tradition of the sheep trek we’d encountered that had piqued our interest. Now we had an excuse.
While visiting a unique museum display dedicated to this farm practice and situated in the Northern Cape’s Loeriesfontein, we would also take in the famous windpump museum. Throw in some farm stays, the region’s flower season, and a few days in the coastal town of Strandfontein and the trip practically made itself.
The opportunity for me to take the bike along was a bonus; one that came about when I realised the packing