ROOKIE ROAD TRIP #2

I hope you all enjoyed my previous story and as promised here is the trip to the Numbi Hotel & Garden Suites in Hazyview… This trip came about much sooner than anticipated but with the knowledge that I now had about longer trips I was much more confident and excited for this one, especially since I had been to Hazyview briefly once before with my iron steed.

- Gabrielle Pieterse

As luck would have it, the Government decided to make Monday the 1st of November a public holiday for us to vote, which gave us the perfect opportunity to make a long weekend out of it and make our way to Hazyview, knowing full well we would come back Monday afternoon in time to cast our votes.

This trip was much better thought out and planned than the spontaneous run to Fouriesburg Country Inn, we started planning at least a week in advance with a lot of back and fourth trying to decide weather or not to ride or trailer up, but eventually came to the conclusion that it was going to be better to trailer up as we planned to leave directly after I came off work on Friday afternoon, which would be after 16:00. Thankfully we made this decision as when I got home on Friday, we will still had to load the two bikes onto the trailer.

This is a much easier job done by two people instead of one! Thank goodness Ferdie decided to take his Triumph Daytona 955i Superbike this time around because from his first experience with me to Mpumalanga, where he took the Suzuki Katana, and learnt that I really enjoy the long sweeping high-speed bends on those Mpumalanga roads, it wasn’t the easiest of tasks keeping up with me on the Naked Katana. But this time would be different, and the Daytona would finally get a chance to stretch its legs considering since we got it, it hasn’t really been ridden properly.