Welcome to freewheelingtwo – hosted by Gail Day and Charl Heydenrych

I hold my parents entirely to blame for my travel addiction! They habituated me in my teens and I'm hooked ... line and sinker.

In 1987, on the overnight ferry between Japan and Korea, I decided to cycle the 500km to Seoul ... and discovered an entirely new high.

Since 1999, friend Charl has been my travel companion ... though he will tell you he is there just to carry my bags!

Neither Charl nor I are your average cyclist. I am in my mid-60s; Charl approaching his mid-70s. Charl is merely fat; I am morbidly obese. In fact, I weigh so much more than a mere 100 pounds over ideal weight (the official definition of morbid obesity), that I probably fell into some untitled category!

We lust for adventure, the unexpected, the unknown. We want to “suck the marrow” before we are too old to do so. We want to live out the fantasy ...

On 27 January 2019, after almost four years off the bikes, we began our warm-up ride between Parys and Paarl (South Africa). Warm up for what? Our BIG trip began in Cape Town (South Africa) on 1 March 2019; our destination Morocco. It was the first time we had planned to cycle a continent as opposed to a country. Sadly, governments' response to Covid-19 brought us to a halt before we reached Casablanca (Morocco) in April 2020. But why not join us for that ride anyway... it was quite a journey.

On 2 March 2023, we picked up where we left off. We flew to Casablanca to spend three months in Morocco, then plan to cross to Spain and unknown points east... Join us!