In South Africa, especially in the province of Natal, thunderstorms are frequent and sudden. Out of the blue come heavy gray clouds that in very short time become compact and ready for rain. Lightning rapidly flashes through the sky and with the electricity and thunderbolts seem to break the clouds. A little later water comes […]

One Saturday morning one of my friends and I were at Bugs’ house deciding what to do. As there had been speed boat and other in-board engine boat racing at Peaties Lake the day before, we decided to go. On those occasions there was always something interesting to see. It was a period during which […]

We were extremely fortunate to have grown up in a country and city where the sun brought potential quality and opportunity to our young innocent lives. During most of my school life I lived in a city called Pietermaritzburg. It was also called “The sleepy hollow” because it was located in a deep valley surrounded […]

Late one night on the way home from a big party, Bugs and I were riding in the dark with our motorbikes under a fine rain. We had about a dozen kilometers to go and we already knew that we had to ride on muddy and slippery roads. As we went along the pitch-black night […]

In 1978 I bought a good second-hand Honda XL 350 scrambler from a famous motorcycle racing rider, Rodney Gray. Its engine had been modified to a 420 cc capacity and had power far in excess of my needs. In fact it scared me in the beginning, but I finally got used to it and was […]

In South Africa there are vast areas of plantations of trees which are used for the wood industry. These areas are divided more or less into huge squares. The paths that make up the boundaries of these squares are called fire breaks. They are made for the purpose of avoiding the spread of a fire […]