If Rassie Did the Road Trip
Joburg to the coast on a strict driver rotation, with the biltong bench coming on at the hour mark.
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Panel 1. 04:30. Team meeting.
- Rassie: Driver change at Colesberg. Toilet break at Colesberg. We do not negotiate with Colesberg.
Panel 2. Hour one. Energy levels dropping.
- Kid: Are we there yet?
- Rassie: Sixty minutes. Bring on the bench.
Panel 3. - Kid: Dad, we are so early.
- Rassie: We are on time. Everybody else is late.
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Panel 1
Before dawn in a driveway, Rassie spreads a paper road map across the back of a loaded bakkie while two sleepy children in dressing gowns watch.
Caption: 04:30. Team meeting.
Rassie: Driver change at Colesberg. Toilet break at Colesberg. We do not negotiate with Colesberg.
Panel 2
Inside the bakkie two restless children slump in the back seat as Rassie, eyes on the road, passes back a bag of biltong.
Caption: Hour one. Energy levels dropping.
Kid: Are we there yet?
Rassie: Sixty minutes. Bring on the bench.
Panel 3
At a beach car park the children leap out of the vehicle while Rassie, in sunglasses, checks his watch, satisfied.
Kid: Dad, we are so early.
Rassie: We are on time. Everybody else is late.