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Caption: #ExploreZA_MINI | 2016-03-05 |
Caption: Our convoy in collaboration with Mini South Africa was pretty intense from the get-go. I won't bore you with all of the sordid details, but it includes:
Staying up til 1:30am on Friday washing and customizing our cars, getting home just after 2am, attempting to get around 45 minutes of sleep, and having to be up the same morning at 3:30 to begin the adventure.
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Caption: I won't lie, seeing my handle on a car of my very own made the lack of sleep completely worth it.
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Caption: My 2000cc turbo-charged beast, the MINI Cooper S, John Cooper Works edition
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Caption: The Convoy In total, there were five of us chosen to be drivers for this sunrise run - myself, @matthewkanniah, @zenography, @wldvrstr and @matthewlooi
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Caption: This is Waldi's Cooper S, affectionately nicknamed The Cheese.
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Caption: Zeno in his natural habitat
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Caption: After leaving the MINI Melrose Arch dealership at 4:30, we arrived in Maropeng around 6am - just as dawn broke and bathed everything in this magical glow. Needless to say, we didn't waste a second of it.
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Caption: Matthew, the brains of the operation
(as much as he denies it)
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Caption: Waldi is known by many other names:
Waldorama, Waldi, Waldorf...
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Caption: After breakfasting in Hartebeespoort at around 9am, the convoy made its way back to Johannesburg. But we drivers weren't done with our rides just yet.
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Caption: The devil's in the details.
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Caption: It was with much sadness that I had to turn the keys over at the end of the day - I can honestly say that I haven't had this much fun behind the wheel of a car in a good two and a half years.
A huge thank you to MINI South Africa for entrusting us with your very rare and special mean-machines - I'm already pining to have mine back.