A ride to L'Aghulas...

This morning we took a ride down to the southern most point of Africa to catch up with the Long Way Down team... Charlie, Ewan and Claudio. What a laugh we had. In Stanford we had a pitstop to warm up the frozen hands, after getting back on the bikes, the whole Long Way Down team came riding up with about 50 bikes in tow. We joined them and rode through to their next pitstop. Luke, Sandra and I were admiring the dirt on our bikes when Charlie and Ewan joined us, they did of course originally want to do their trip on KTM's... After the small talk and throwing in that we're doing the West Coast of Africa we got them to pose for our groupie picture... Claudio their camera man pulled up shortly after, with his daughter on the back. We had a good chat to him, this guy must have an awesome job, filming and riding around the world on the back of a bike... He had some damage to his bike because as he put it, he had to slam on the brakes after Charlie was doing some showing off on his bike... It all ended well, just a couple of bruises and nothing the Beemer (BMW) could not handle. The ride into L'Aghulas was a laugh, we were the only two KTM's in the BMW brigade, as we got to the southern most point there were about 200 riders lining the road, cheering and taking pictures, we just followed.
On the way home we took a detour via Elim on some dirt roads, had some mud to deal with and a bit of gravel but nothing to put us off... Seems we are getting better at this now! After Sir Lowry's Pass we spotted the convey of riders again, it had now included nearly everyone that was at L'Aghulas. We filed back in and rode through to Woodbridge Island. We had good company along the way, there was a Police vehicle clearing the way upfront and a chopper hovering left or right getting the best shots of us coming into town.
All in all, an awesome day out riding. We did over 500km's today, but on roads like ours and with this sunny weather it's fun. A couple of beers in Camps Bay ended the day nicely.