The best road trips usually begin with an idle thought. That’s how my epic end-of-year adventure — which involved circumnavigating Lesotho over two weeks — got its inauspicious start.

My wife was going to be away over December and the thought of being homebound did not appeal to me. I had a lot of thinking and planning to do for 2025, and I figured staying in Joburg was not conducive to that. No, I needed inspiration. And what better way to get it than on a solo road trip to somewhere remote...

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