Adam Teale: News From Above

On July 12th 2009 Nicholas Ward and Adam Teale left Bangkok Thailand and rode their newly acquired bicycles south through Thailand and Malaysia, and after 2100km and nearly a month of riding, made it to Singapore

“hey Nick… how’s you going?”
“…I’m running on auto-pilot…”
Around 160km per day seems to be a limit we reach before weird things begin to happen.
Time slows down, your body starts to spasm, the bike shorts feel tighter than normal, your hands are now more numb than ever. And you can’t stop thinking about what weird fizzy [...]

Georgetown is colourful, saturated, friendly, multicultural and fantastic.
I think it’s definitely been one of the more enjoyable places on this journey so far!
Maybe it’s because it’s buzzing with many different people Indian, Muslim, Chinese, Malay, Nepalese and most likely countless others.
So much food! It’s the first real place where the mixture of culture is so [...]

Not much to say about today, spent most of it waiting for the ferry from Langkawi to Penang – the 2pm was fully booked so had to wait until 5:15pm. Caught up on emails and drank milo from a box.
The ferry was about 75RM plus an extra 10-20RM for our bikes. The boat folks lashed [...]