[MUSIC PLAYING]
MIRANDA MILLER: I got invited to go ride with Hannah.
And I didn't even ask any questions.
You want to Africa?
Like, yes.
Yes I do.
Arrived in Cape Town.
Then we went to Stellenbosch.
The whole Stellenbosch area is along the hillsides,
they're covered in vineyards.
It's beautiful.
It's these rolling hills.
HANNAH BARNES: From Stellenbosch we
went riding in Jonkershoek Nature Reserve.
You feel like you're properly out in the middle of nature
and mountains.
It's so beautiful.
MIRANDA MILLER: Really diverse landscape
because of the just beautiful colors.
Mix of the burn and still some greenery.
Amazing.
HANNAH BARNES: MIRANDA MILLER: We met up
with Bennet Nel, who is a local trial builder.
And really kick-started the whole
trail building in the Jonkershoek area.
He's got so much passion and built all these amazing trials.
BENNET NEL: [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
MIRANDA MILLER: It's just so admirable
that their trails burned down and it doesn't really seem
to hold Bennett back, you know?
He'll Just get back out there and rebuild them
or build new ones.
BENNET NEL: [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
MIRANDA MILLER: Sorry, what was that?
SPEAKER 1: Ostrich.
MIRANDA MILLER: That's ostrich?
SPEAKER 1: That's ostrich.
MIRANDA MILLER: Oh.
HANNAH BARNES: After riding, Bennett
took us to a friend's house where
we had a braai, which is a South African barbecue.
It's such a popular South African thing.
Everyone so enthusiastic about their weekend braai, which
the whole country is doing it.
MIRANDA MILLER: All your buddies get together
and you barbecue, and hang out, and drink beer.
I was introduced to Fanie.
Summed up South Africa for me in one human.
Barefoot, Crocodile Dundee hat, got the Leatherman on.
He's got his hands in the barbecue.
No worries.
And he was just stoked on everything.
HANNAH BARNES: Its' been amazing to come to the Southern
Hemisphere.
And it's just so different to what I think either of us
are used too, which was really good fun like kind
of drifting about.
And it was just so much dust.
It was great.
MIRANDA MILLER: I had never met Hannah before.
And just arrived and instantly hit it off.
I think very common sense of humor.
So it was easy just to goof off.
HANNAH BARNES: Riding with Miranda
has been so good for me.
She races downhill worldcup.
So to ride with someone that level, because she's so fast,
and it's just been amazing trying to keep up with her.
MIRANDA MILLER: To think that I'd be in Africa riding bikes,
you know?
Think back 10 years, that thought
would not have crossed my mind.
So to actually be here and experience it,
it's pretty surreal.
Like, it's Africa.
You know?
I'm in Africa.