Cycling The Road Less Travelled

Woohoo! It’s Christmas in January. Thanks to Mel and the awesome folks at Bowmans Bicycle shop in Cape Town, South Africa our wheel woes are over. We have a brand new touring wheel which means we no longer need to spend our rides in nervous anticipation of another snapping sound or the litany of expletives that usually followed the snapping sound. And if lugging a huge, heavily padded box with our new wheel (which was considerably larger then her own luggage btw) wasn’t enough, she also brought us many more goodies like tools, tubes, chocolate and new socks. For the record, at this stage in the game a brand new pair of socks is big…really BIG. And the enormous Swiss chocolate bar? Well, that’s almost a religious experience. But even better then a new wheel, even better then the chocolate and brand new socks was that we got to spend several days with Mel and her daughter Jesse. We toured, saw the sights, laughed, talked for hours, shared tuk-tuk rides and sipped countless fruit shakes. So much fun! Thanks Mel and Jesse.