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48 HOURS LAND OF PLENTY

BRIEFS 48 hours (and longer)

So, where am I going? Where indeed. I'm heading out from Cape Town first to the Cederberg on the Elizabethfontein Road, then on the back roads without numbers, left at nothing, right at the death's door donkey, onwards to Calvinia, Loeriesfontein, Stofbakkies and Pofadder (the town, not the snake). From there, east to Kakamas, down the legendary R27 and R354 dirt roads to the tiny dorpie of Middelpos, and finally home to Cape Town, through the wind farms of the Moordenaars Karoo. That's the plan.

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