Every Province Challenge

We’ve cycled 8,560kms throughout Thailand and every province. Photo by Pele Apisit

We had the honor to meet Tu and Jan from Nature Focus Thailand…

Just before 9:30am we arrived at the border and as usual the peak of the hills. The climb was easier than our last because the grade was constant and ongoing. It just kept going with no breaks or little flats or downs to give our legs a rest. We now have 35km down and are […]

Today a couple of things happened. First, I was feeling totally normal again and our cycling was back where it was, which was good news since we’ve got so many hills ahead of us. Second, we had a guy wave us down and on the side of the road in the city and tell us […]

ถ่ายตอนลงเขารัง จ.เพชรบูรณ์ (คือเพิ่งจะนึกได้ตอนลงมาแล้วครึ่งทาง) สำหรับคนที่ไม่เคยปั่นขึ้นเขามาก่อน ก็คงจะไม่เคยสัมผัสอะไรแบบนี้ ข้อแนะนำ สำหรับการชม : กรุณาเปิดพัดลมตัวใหญ่ที่สุดเท่าที่จะหาได้ เปิดเบอร์แรงที่สุดเท่าที่มี แล้วหันใส่หน้าระหว่างการรับชม 555 This video clip was shot while we were half way down from Khao Rung in Petchboon. Anybody who has never ridden a bicycle uphill before probably has not experienced the rush from this kind of downhill. How to watch this video clip : […]

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 fine, we had been powering along at 23kms per hour and doing another 40+ […]

We rode 35kms today, which put us into our 39th province and over the half way mark on our trip. Now we have only 38 provinces more to go and around 4,500 kms by all calculations. The reward for reaching our half way mark was pizza for lunch and a nice(er) hotel room for the […]

Today was a long day. We made some new friends in Nakhon Phanom. We had been contacted by June, who is a fellow cyclist (female, single, late 20s if anyone interested :p), and I didn’t have time to write about her and her friends in my journal entry yesterday so I’m doing it today. June […]

We are back from the orphanage, it was a great visit and I think we had as much fun as the kids. Natt gave a little presentation about our journey from Surat Thani to Yasothon and its 4,000 plus kms. We talked to the kids and answered a few questions, keeping the whole thing short […]

A visit to Ban Home Hug in Yasothon for children with HIV who have been abandoned or orphaned.

Leaving Surin was hard, because I didn’t want to get out of bed. The freight train of on air conditioner rattled all night long and it didn’t help my sleeping… obviously the motion of the train is the most important part! We awoke, we rode… we visited a historical location about 35km outside of town […]

Please come and join us วันที่ : วันอาทิตย์ที่ 4 พฤศจิกายน | Date: Sunday November 4

It started out as a lovely morning… we were riding quiet roads and the sun was shinning. At around 25kms a massive storm front came through and we waited at a Tesco Lotus Market for over an hour for the rain to settle down, the road was 3 inches think in water and so was […]

Today was 67kms and we successfully made it all the way to the edge of Bangkok without using the main highway road. We came over on the ferry to the Eastern side of the Chao Praya river in Pak Nam, Samut Prakan. This locations is only 8kms from the BTS line (Bearing station) and would […]

Riding downhill with a tailwind and on fresh legs is always fun, I doubt that anyone has ever complained about it. Today we had nothing to complain about. We rode 100kms in just over 4 hours, cruising along at 24 km/hour for most of the morning… Nothing about the riding felt fast, it was just […]

We have done nearly 2,000 kilometres in 24 days and it was great fun, but now we have a few days to kill until we pop up to Surin in the bus for Chris and Gae’s wedding, so we have chosen to stay in the lovely and quiet beach side town of Ban Krut. We […]

Today’s ride, 115 kms and 788 metres of hills. My ass is extra sore and I’m sleepy. The pair of cyclists we spoke to along the road the other day decided to stay at Home Phang Nga Guest House as well, so we had a couple of beers and talked about the world with them […]

Today we left at 5:30am from Phuket town and headed towards Phang Nga, a distance of 95km with 441m of ascent. We had a meeting with the Tourism Authority of Thailand staff and a couple more interviews in Phang Nga. It was more of a photo shoot actually, as they had us do a half […]

Today was a strange day. First, the good news, our legs have had 2 days off after we decided to stay in Phuket an extra night to accommodate more interviews organized by คุณบังอรรัตน์ ชินะประยูร of the Phuket Tourism of Thailand Office. I really don’t know how many different groups of media turned up, but the […]

Distance Covered: 117kms Riding Time: 5 hours and 15 minutes Left with 30 cyclists riding around town at 6:10am. They escorted us to the beach of Pattani capital city, then 50% of the riders peeled away leaving a smaller group that would cycle the whole way to Narathiwat. This smaller group was led by three […]

Firstly, Natt and I want to thank ซี ฮาเลม มาลา and the whole ชมรมจักรยานจังหวัดปัตตานี (Pattani Cycling Club) for everything they have done for us, but more about that later.   Total: 550kms – 5 Provinces and around 27 hours in the saddle. Expenses for the last 7 days: 7,894 Baht (will do a breakdown after […]