I'm currently in Perth in the Qantas gold lounge being a high roller on one of the 20 Macs they have here as free internet computers ha. 

This is the start of my trips for the year, and I'm going to Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. 6 hour flight to Perth, 5 hour layover and then 12 hours to Johannesburg, pick up bags, then fly to Durban, from there  hour drive to Pietermaritzburg. Everything has gone good so far, so hopefully stays that way. 

The track Layout looks insane for this world cup with so much things going on! will be a fun practice for sure.

I didn't end up posting this so will carry on with the story.


Boarding the flight to Johhansesburg I was so tired from trying to keep myself awake so I could sleep in the plane, got into the plane, took half of Sarah's sleeping pills and I was knocked out for half the flight. But for next half I was just pinging the whole time not tired at all so got to watch a few movies. We got into Joburg at 5am SA time so I was pretty much tripping out not knowing if I was tired or awake or hungry or anything. We all managed to get into the Gold lounge as well so the 3 hour layover wasn't bad at all.
Flight from Joburg to Durban was a quick one with an hour drive to the motel we had finally arrived. I think it was something like 30 hours of travel and waiting in lounges until we actually got here, but it could have been alot worse.
We settled down had lunch, which felt like dinner, then had 6 hours to burn until tea, this was a burner.
We went to go look at the track to waste some time, and i was surprised with the track, it's no Chula Vista that's for sure. The track graphic design looks a lot scarier haha, but will for sure be a fun track to shred on. 3rd straight rhythm section looks like it will be the hardest straight. The track jump looks like its tiny, but haven't had a decent look yet, certainly looks jumpable, don't know about flow but that's all gonna show when we ride.
We decided that it would be a good idea to go for a swim, so we go to the pool and Daniel Franks decided to do a sick bomb in the pool. He cut his head open and then needed 12 stitches and a bald patch on his head which looks hilarious.
We finished tea at about 7 and I decided to try stay up as late as possible to try get into normal sleep routine, I got to 8pm then comoed for a solid 10hours sleep and felt like the best sleep of my life.

Today we are hitting the gym then a chill session at the track, so hopefully the rain keeps away(yes it's raining, its bs) but everything's going well so far. Got a few pics of some boredom moments.