And then GoogleMaps decided I need to travel dirt roads!!
We were still on our way to Willowmore, after departing from Kimberley. I use GoogleMaps as my GPS and it then decided that we had to travel on a dirt road, as this was the shortest road to Willowmore. (I need to check my settings to prevent this). It took us on a 100km dirt road, which luckily was in good condition. (I see the dirt road saved us about 28km, and I am sure it took us much longer than what the tar road would have taken!! So much for the shortest root!!)
This road is in the Karoo, which is a semi desert area in South Africa, as you can see it is miles of almost noting!!
The road sign below is even hand painted, luckily I had the GPS as one would not know if the sign is correct!!
As you can see this area is very dry.
On the entire 100km the tortoise below was the only life we saw, except for one other car that passed us in the other direction. I would not like it to be stranded here with car trouble!!
Although I did not like to travel the dirt road, it was a nice experience, as we got to see a landscape from a totally different perspective that what one usually do.
You can read more about the Karoo region by clicking on the link.
I hope you liked the post as much as I liked writing it.
I hope you have a wonderful day!!
I remember when we took a shortcut in denmark.
The area is otherwise used by the military for training purposes and the road had potholes as big as soccer balls.
The shortcut took us twice as long in the end.
But the experience was worth it.
Agreed, sometimes it is worth it!!
Well you did ask for shortest lol. 😀 Hopefully you can set it to only use paved roads!
I will definitely try to do that for the future!!
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