15 km spin out to Boca, 40km road race, and 15km spin home. Sounded manageable. But it became one of the biggest fights I’ve survived. A battle royal against the coldest cold. Eish. Once I realised I was in trouble, what could I do? No where to go, no phone to call on, no option [...]

As mentioned I decided to do a shoot for my sponsors so as to create an opportunity for them to use in print media, as well as for my personal needs as well. Jacques Marais (home) did me a favour a joined me for a morning in and around Stellenbosch. Although I’m yet to see all, and see anything in proper [...]

Have  a look at this website with great photo’s of the insane mountain bike ride I did today. Mind blowing single track - something like 3hours of it. My concentration was shot, as it just kept coming and coming and demanding more and more. I am without broken bones, so this mtb ride went significantly better than [...]

Gary, Gia, Little Ella, Ruth and myself spent some of Saturday attending the Earth Day Festival at Sqauw Valley (sqauw.com) - the picturesque home of the 1960 Winter Olympics. The strangest collection of odd folk I’ve come across. Everything from the ultra wealth and their dog, to hippy’s dancing to a hippy band playing hippy love rock, [...]

Just back from the most incredible road ride alongside streams of fresh molten snow lined with pine trees on white hillsides beneath a blue blue sky. Nuts. Going from fynbos to this in 48hours is like going from a corporate office to the beach.

(The quaint small town of Truckee (Wikipedia))