It’s more than artisan – its Creation, with care and mostly love. It is not in the art! As much as each and every coffee bean is individually hand sorted from defects at its source, so Trailblazer Trailer individually and timeously hand makes each cup of coffee. From the freshly grinding of the beans to the skill in brewing, each cup is given&...
It is not about the distance. Sure, 65 kilometres is a long way - a long way to run, not just on mountain trails up and over mountains, but it is not about the distance. If anything it is all about time, time on one’s legs, for hours and hours at a time. The Ultra-trail Cape Town® 65 kilometre was one of those great ultra trail running ra...
This reflective Tale about cities was inspired by our Sojourning 2015: They rise and fall, they exist. Their streets are paved, paving the way for thousands of souls to pass through. Their buildings give way to elaborate architecture, towering above, always out of reach. Cars everywhere, never sleeping, always moving. A melting pot, cultures meet, ...
We really like waterfalls. There’s something way more romantic and pleasing than just staring at water cascading down a mountain ravine. Intoxicating in its movement, waterfalls are refreshing – a continuous movement that makes us wonder about its source, and how some waterfalls never, ever, dry up. Such a waterfall exists about two hours north of ...
What is in a relationship? It is said that the coffee beans’ journey is likened to a race where a baton is passed from one process to another… Start with the end in mind? Yzerfontein Cycle Experience, Yzerfontein, Western Cape, South Africa. The trail that the coffee we brew took from its creation into the hands of the persons we meet has pass...
African fish eagles fly and swoop. With precision they have an uncanny ability to snatch a fish from water while in full flight, their body following a predetermined trajectory that their magnificent wings support and execute their hunting mission. Two such creatures exist in an area in the Robertson Wine Valley and so much so that a trail is named...
Sometimes dreams are realised, other times they always remain a dream. Then again, sometimes we do not even know we living the dream. What am I talking about? Each of our journeys have unique reasons behind them…and usually they centre around something we want, think we need or desire that would hit a sweet spot. Once this sweet spot is reali...
To make new. That is this Tale. Simply put, Trailblazer Trailer exists to this end. It is a journey in and of itself and is still ongoing. This Tale is one of a few to come about the journey this Trailer is Trailblazing. It is never always about the first sip. Sip of what? Coffee? Well, maybe. In this case, a trailer had to be made new, a 47 year o...
Tracks. It’s where one goes and what one leaves behind. Also known as Trailblazing, tracks are those paths that lead to places where some may not be able or have yet to go. This Tale outlines our tracks that we have recorded in various locations around the world. Click on the country in blue to see the track in that particular part of the world. Tr...
Antibodies. Sometimes the hardest part of the race is the preparation and mind shifting that comes as a result of knowing what lies ahead. This was no less true for the Tsitsikamma Ultra, the running of this linear, six day, sixty-kilometre hiking trail. No less true, not only because it was a first time anyone was to run of this trail in a day, bu...
This longer-than-usual Tale takes a deep look into why coffee is drunk the way it is in a particular culture. Grab a coffee and take 10 minutes to read this: Dubai Coffee Museum, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Arguably one of the hardest things to pin point with regards to any given culture is the underlying and hidden reasons for why things are what...
When we left the West coast of Portugal after Sojourning 2015, little did we know that when we traveled to Mossel Bay at the bottom of Africa a little less than two months later, that the explorer Bartholomew Dias first landed at this bay, known then as the Bay of St Blaize, after leaving his Portuguese shores in search of India. Bartholomew Dias V...