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Paul Hamon
Paul’s side of the ride, written most evenings in English.
Chum Phae to Mueang Chaiyaphum
I’ve HAD A BOTTLE OF WINE, I don’t know if this will make any sense. Thailand has created 4 new provinces in the last 20 years, 1 of them just 18 months ago. We are a little…
Mueang Loei towards Mueang Chaiyaphum
Today is Day 81. Somewhere in there we lost a day and found it again when I was going through our notebook of expenses. Anyway, I put everything into an Excel spreadsheet for the…
Erawan, Loei to Mueang Loei
4th day of cycling in a row without a break. It has been hard. It’s been 350kms, and that’s more than I like to do in 4 days of riding… I really don’t like 4 days in row. 3 and 1…
Nong Wua So, Udon Thani to Erawan, Leoi via Mueang Nong Bua Lum Phu
Distance 75.6km – Elevation 377m – Time 03:52:54. We cycled from the edge of one province to the next, crossing the whole of Nong Bua Lum Phu in only 76kms. Nong Bua Lum Phu is a…
Meaung Nong Khai to Mueang Udon Thani and Beyond
Started late, as we only planned to ride to Udon Thani today. We managed to reach Udon Thani by noon and after we visited the post office and TAT Office we had to decide what to…
Mueang Bueng Kan to Mueang Nong Khai
We didn’t have a plan for today, we were going to do 100, 140 or 161+ kms, but we were going to base it on how we felt at the time. At 100km, in the town of Phon Phisai, we felt…
Two awful ‘resorts’ in a row!
Ok, it’s been a 300km in 3 days and 2 pretty crap ‘resorts’ for 350B per night. Both resorts had musty rooms with rock hard beds and dirty bathrooms. So today we checked into the…
Saturday and Sunday with a total 225 kms
Saturday: Flat tire rear… was our second rear flat and our fifth overall. It was the same problem we’ve had on 3 of the other flats… a 3-4mm piece of wire… the wire from an…
Maha Sarakham to Khon Kaen
Today was a rainy day, but we had a fairly easy ride. The last 10kms with the wind behind us blew us straight into town, which was great. We visited the Tourism office and then…
Roi Et to Maha Sarakham
We’ve had a great run of great bicycle shops in these lesser known, or less famous, Isan provinces. Today, we visited Ban Rot Teep (House of the Push Vehicle, or obviously, Push…