Day 12: Little Rock Resort to Pretoria (Home)

While heading to Clocolan, I realised there were some checks that may allow the household to continue as normal.  I called my wife and she implemented the checks and restored everything to normal.  

This meant I could do some gravel roads.  I found the nearest gravel waypoint and continued the journey along gravel roads.  There was rain on the North and East horizons which was the direction I was heading.   The route took me along minor gravel roads that were not well maintained.  Most of the route was very loose gravel that was like riding on marbles.  There were some stretches of thick sand, of which the longest was about 200m. Light rain started falling during the last 10km of gravel before reaching the N5.

Along with the threat of rain and the fact that the 95km of gravel had taken 1:41 hours and I still had 200km of gravel to go for the day, I decided to continue along the tar roads only.  I headed for Bethlehem and further along the R26 to Pretoria.  The weather cleared up soon after Bethlehem, but I decided to remain on the tar roads.