As is well chronicled in this blog, my fascination with Audax, PBP, and long distance cycling started via the Internet. But had it not been for Audax SA, it would probably have stayed there as an unexplored and unfulfilled daydream. It was really due to the local Randonneuring community, and the head of Audax SA, Eddie Thomlinson, that I was able to realise my obsession with taking part in PBP 2015. It was, therefore, something of an honour when RIDE Magazine invited me to write a short piece on the twentieth anniversary of our local South African Audax community.