I must admit I’ve lost enthusiasm to write my stories, I’ve lost it go out and visit tourist attractions. Basically I just want to get to Bangkok and for it two be over. We’re only 300km from Bangkok and decided two do it in 3 days, just to get it done. We’re looking forward to […]
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Day 134 – We’ve been rolling faster in Nakhon Sawan
The last couple of days we’ve been cycling over 24 km/hour, but the day have only been short 60-70kms. The bicycle is working find and we’re obviously just that little bit stronger for climbing the hills. Kampaenh Phet and Nakhon Sawan don’t really seam to be outstanding cities, they’re full of chinese shophouses, busy, industrial. […]
Day 131 – Salokbat, Kampaeng Phet
Yesterday was capital city of Kampaeng Phet, the city itself was not much to talk about although we didn’t explore it very much. It does run along the Ping River and also has historical ruins which are world listed but we didn’t visit them. Or visit to this city revolved around eating, resting and relaxing. […]
Day 128 and 129 – Theon / Mueang Tak
Day 128 – Theon Theon is a dive, it’s a town with no decent hotel and truck runway down the middle and nothing remarkable. The only good thing about today was the 20 or so riders that cam out with us from lampangbike.com and cycled with us for 25kms. They where a great and friendly […]
Day 127 – Lampang
Today was our last big hill, it was mostly painless but slow… a long incline that lasted forever, especially with 15kg extra back on the bike, but it was rewarded with a long and steady downhill for around 20kgs down the top of what I believe is the central plains. Ride was fine, the welcome […]
Day 126 – Past Mueang Lamphun
Today we left Chiang Mai, I don’t mind the city I like it a little more each time I visit but I can remember the first time I visited didn’t think much of it at all. We visited TAT Office, then cycled towards Natt aunties house, and past it. That was not the plan so […]
Day 124 – Arriving in the flats of Chiang Mai
Leaving the hills, today we cycled 95km the longest we’ve done for awhile. Mostly because it was a solid downhill and in the flats. We’ve only have one real ‘lump’ to make it over before it’s plan sailing. People have told me we will miss the hills, I know I’ll miss some of them, but […]
Day 121-122 Mae Hong Son and back to Pai
Right, 47% of all our climbing has been done in the month of September! Any only about 15% of our kilometre. It has been a hard month, so very hard. We snapped a chain, pushing/rolling the bicycle 17kms or so. We when up grades of 15% we rubbed all the braking material off our rear […]
Day 117-118 Rafting into Mae Hong Son
We’ve just spend 2 days off the bicycle rafting into Mueang Mae Hong Son from amphur Pai, the river was medium level the ride was fun not scary. It was maybe 12 hours on the water over two days, and stayed in very simple camp on the banks of the river. We choose Thai Adventure […]
Day 115 – Pa Pae to Pai with bad gears!
Surprisingly today was a good day. We cycled 60kms with 30 of them being uphill. Our broken chain from yesterday held up and we made it all the way to Pai. The problem was the rear gear kept slipping under load. Adding to this was the fear that the chain would break again at any […]
Day 114 Mae Thaeng to Pae Pa both in Chiang Mai
Today was supposed to be hard cycling, but it wasn’t. It WAS hard for another reason. We only planned 34km today to make sure we could deal with the hills leading to Pai. The hills I believe would have been all rideable if it wasn’t for two problems. We’ve been having some gear (rear cassette) […]
Day 111-112 across the top of Chiang Mai
My neck is covered in mosquito bites, hundreds of them. Ok, maybe just tens, but it’s crazy because I cannot find the mosquitoes. Side note – I’ve had a bottle of wine and the bites *might* be imaginary. Anyway, yesterday we pushed our bicycle over the tallest hill we’ve faced so far, it was a […]
Day 110 – Chiang Rai to Wiang Pa Pao
Today was supposed to be mostly flat and around 80kms. It was and the cycling was easy except for a couple of steep hills. The SHOULDER was shocking, most likely the worst we’ve seen this whole trip, rough and unrideable. Luckily the traffic gave us a wide birth and the road was not super busy. […]
Day 109 – around Chiang Rai
Today was pretty straight forward. We picked up our new disc brake pads from the post office which had been sent via EMS on Friday and arrived on Monday at lunch time. Great! We also forwarded 19,990 grams (just under 20kgs) of our equipment to Chiang Mai, which is after the big hills. We will […]
Day 107-108 Mueang Phayao to Chiang Rai
Mueang Phayao to Pran Was an easy ride, just under 50km. We left late, relaxed, drank too much coffee, ate noodles, stopped at a strange little wood ‘resort’ and decided to stay there. The day was quite uneventful. Trying to get to sleep in a mosquito net was not so easy. The room was cool […]
Day 105 Somewhere in Phayao to Amphur Mueang
Cycling over the last 2 days has been hard, we’ve had plenty of hills and it’s only the start of the hilly region. We are not athletes, we are just two normal people, people that were never particularly good at sports. It’s more about will than strength. So far we’ve done nearly 7,000kms and it’s […]
Meeting Nature Focus Thailand in Nan
We had the honor to meet Tu and Jan from Nature Focus Thailand…
Day 103 – Mueang Nan to Chiang Muan, Phayao
This was our hardest day ever, only 70kms but 1,620m of grade that was too steep for us to cycle up in parts. Plus we didn’t eat breakfast before we left the town. The total travel time was 8 hours. We usually cover 120km in this amount of time, but today was long hard work. […]
Day 100 Celebration – Mueang Phrae to Mueang Nan
Distance: 6,659.9 km Provinces: 56 Days: 100 It’s been #56 provinces and we arrived in Nan today. We were prepared for steep hills and a hard ride and although today was long at 120 kms the hills were manageable. So we’re heading into the hills, apparently the ride to Phayao is 45kms of mostly UP […]
Day 98 – Mueang Uttaradit to Mueang Phrae
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 […]
Day 96 – Mueang Uttaradit
We had a day off in Sukhothai, so we can take some photos and enjoy the historical town. It was a nice day, but it was raining in the morning. We hoped that the next day wouldn’t be the same, but it was. We left at 9:30am because of the heavy rain. We held off […]
Day 94 – Mueang Sukhothai
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 […]
Day 92-93 – Mueang Phitsunalok
It was 55km or so to Mueang Phitsunalok and I was not feeling very well in the morning. We took it very slow and easy with plenty of breaks along the way. We wanted to make sure I arrived better than a couple of days before. I did! The ride was ok. We took back […]
