Every Province Challenge

We left late today at 7am, which gave us time to eat breakfast at Boonsiri Boutique Hotel. This boutique hotel has very decent rooms for only 450B per night. The hotel is 3 years but it has been kept in really great condition. I will post the GPS co-ordinates because it’s a very nice option […]

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 […]

One thing that becomes hard when blogging about bicycle touring is the fact that the days all become one and the stories become the same. You try hard to make them interesting and talk about unique things that happened on a particular day. But what happens when nothing is that interesting? The cycling is sometimes […]

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

Provinces: 30 Distance: 3,692 kms Time: 184 hours We are meeting people along the way today. A secondary school teacher, who is also a keen cyclist, has arranged for us to have two different groups of people coming to ride with us. We’re always happy to have other cyclists join us! We rode out at […]

Today Natt was feeling pretty bad. She had an upset tummy at 5am, so we went back to bed and waited for it to settle down. At around 7am she announced that her stomach was as good as it was going to get and that we should be heading off. At 9am, the tummy was […]

Today was a painless day when compared to yesterday. We rode just under 90kms and my ass felt much better and the distance was easy. Hills were limited on today’s ride but the sun, and its heat, did come out. I purchased some wine, cheese, and crackers then ate them all. It was not an […]

We have made it to Trat’s provincial capital, the map shows we’ve done all the coast line and now we have ‘only’ got the interior of Thailand to go. Doesn’t sounds like much, does it? The last few days have not been as exciting as days before. I guess we’ve had less people coming out […]

We left Chanthaburi at the best starting time. I would love to be able to tell you that Natt and I jump out of bed and are ready to roll fully energized everyday, but I will let you in on a little secret, Natt and I are NOT morning people. We both hate mornings, we’re […]

Late start, easy ride. Couple of slow days has really helped. Only 70 kms tomorrow and then we reach Trat, hopefully it’s not too hilly. We have found a nice cheap place for 350 Baht. It has Wi-fi, clean rooms, and best of all somewhere to put the bicycle. And it’s run by friendly people, […]

I have no idea where we stayed last night. It was somewhere 10kms east of Rayong. It was on the beach and simple. The dinner there was great dinner, but the sleep we had was much better. This morning we started riding at 8 or 9am, I’m not exactly sure. I didn’t really care since […]

Last 10 kms of the day were a killer. We only did 127km today but I am feeling a little faint and earlier I had the urge to vomit. Making it to the finish line was hard. Originally I thought today’s ride was going to be 105 kms and fairly  flat. It was neither. I […]

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 […]

Big rain at 5am, big rain at 6am… finally road off at 6:30am in a very light drizzle down a busy Sukhumvit road (it’s a very long road). We hoped to be out early and 20kms down the road before the buses, workers, school kids, and truck drivers started filling it up, but the rain […]

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 […]

After all the amazing riding we’ve had the last 50km of today’s ride have been shit, busy, loud, dusty. If I had to describe it in one word – Bangkok. We’re on the edge of town and industry is everywhere, lots of people riding bicycles here but mostly factory workers. It’s also hard to find […]

It was a big 125km and 6 hours on the bicycle today. Subsequently, we ate 2 awesome hamburgers at the restaurant in the Rose Garden. Firstly, if you ever visit the Rose Garden please order a 220 Baht hamburger, it was amazing, with some real English style Chips (or French Fries to you Americans) plus […]

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 […]

Thanks to some of the guys from yesterday, and Natt’s hard work on ThaiMTB.com, we had another couple on a tandem come out and ride with us for 50kms this morning. It was a great ride, light traffic and friendly chatting. They both spoke about as much English as I do Thai, but it was […]

Today, was a-ok. Only 95kms which included a couple of side trips, but it was our first day with 2 provinces covered in one day. Samut Songkram is Thailand’s smallest province with only 3 districts, and we rode through all of them. Leaving Petchaburi was great, the road we took was the shortest to Mae […]

An easy and very familiar 80kms of riding that we’ve done plenty of times before, check the Strava GPS Route for details. The best past of today was meeting Shoot, a fellow Thai cycle tourer who has set himself the missi0n of visiting the most Northern, Western, Eastern, and Southern points of Thailand and enjoying […]

After a couple of days break from our ride, to join a wedding in Surin, we arrived back in Hua Hin to repack our panniers. Today we will swap from the 4 large and 2 small panniers to 4 small and 2 large ones, something we most likely should have done from the start. Running […]

The riding was great, we left moments before sunrise and continued until the very early afternoon. The weather was cool and overcast with a tiny amount of rain. I’m pretty sure this is John Graham’s final day of riding with us until he joins us again for our triumphant ride down into Bangkok in a […]

Leaving Ban Krut at 6am was a good idea, we managed to arrive in the provincial capital of Prachuap Khiri Khan before light rain blanketed the town. It was a breezy 75 kms into town and we managed to do nearly 50% of the journey before breakfast. We left Kasama’s house and waved goodbye, she […]