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I’ve had some issues with my website for a few weeks now but it looks to be back to normal and just in time to let you folks know that the latest episode of Planet Kapow is now online.

In this ep we travel from beautiful Granada (Nicaragua) and check out Volcán Mombacho – no lava yet again but beautiful flora and fauna (including a baby deer), then we shoot to Managua (probably the least coolest city on the trip up to this point), then take a day and a half on buses & boats passing through El Rama and Bluefields to eventually arrive on Big Corn Island (a nice little slice of paradise).

As usual head on over to Planet Kapow, read Lachie’s article, and check out all that is episode 31 – “Granada to Corn Islands”:

http://www.planetkapow.com/1775

When I can get to some great bandwidth I’ll upload the HD version.

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

Here it is via Vimeo:

Dude, where’s my Jakkayarn? from Adam Teale on Vimeo.

Download the 854×480 h264 version

6 Comments

• At Tue 24, November 2009, Patrick wrote:

  Awesome video Mr Teale!

  Where are you at now btw?

• At Tue 24, November 2009, Bart Verkoeijen wrote:

  Hahaha, awesome video. Gives a nice touch to all the reading. :-) Loved the spy cam. :-D

• At Thu 26, November 2009, Adam wrote:

  Thanks Guys!

  @Patrick - am in southern thailand hanging out on Koh Lanta island. You gotta check it out sometime!

• At Thu 26, November 2009, Luke wrote:

  Thanks for sharing the trip with us, great work on the bike-cam and editing. You two rock.

  L

• At Fri 27, November 2009, ano wrote:

  well done sir. quite jealous. next trip?

• At Fri 27, November 2009, Adam wrote:

  cheers fellas!

  @ano - Next trip - not sure, heading to Sydney to work until July next year. By then I'm sure i'll be keen to go on an adventure again!

  What about you dude??

Left the ‘love shack’ at Than Phannara around 7am an headed down highway 41, but then took a left down highway 4195 towards the mountains and then onto highway 4015 – towards Nakhon Sri Thammarat!

Was a great morning through this area, great jungle/forest around, lots of little villages to pass through, some big mountains with clouds floating past, very green.

We crossed through the Nakhon Sri Thammarat mountains after a fairly decent accent – Nicholas managed to beat it, my lack of gears got the better of me and had to walk it. Errrrr.

But the ride down the hill was cool – pretty steep and no traffic. My iPhone says i got my bike up to 92.1 km/h!

The rest of the ride into Nakhon Sri Thammarat was nice and flat, but HOT.

Total km: 78 km
Max Speed: 92.1 km/h

5 Comments

• At Mon 20, July 2009, Chayanon wrote:

  ????????????? 92 ????????????????? ?????????????????...???????????????????? ?????????????????? ????

• At Mon 20, July 2009, Lachlan Prior wrote:

  re: where to go in Malaysia - may I suggest the east coast? I know it's awkward because you've got to skip around yala, narathiwat and all that nastiness plus it probably means skipping KL but the east coast is supposed to be sprinkled with beautiful, deserted beaches. panang on the west coast is fairly nice as is kuala lumpur but it's palm oil plantations almost the entire distance (ie, fairly boring).

• At Mon 20, July 2009, Bart Verkoeijen wrote:

  Almost halfway! I can see you've got bored of that highway 41. And I can't blame you, highway 4015 seems to be much nicer to ride.

  Then I guess Lachlan got a good point in going on the east side of Malaysia. The west side is more developed and has tourist resorts... East seems much more fun to explore by bicycle. :-)

• At Wed 22, July 2009, ???? wrote:

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• At Thu 23, July 2009, the tall guy wrote:

  @Lachlan - good suggestion! It's on the cards but might end up just taking the west coast and maybe crossing over to the east when we get down south near singapore.

6.30am left Ban Boet. Road solidly for an hour along the coastline and then went inland, picked up some sticky rice and carved our way through the jungle to Don Yang.
Riding along the coast before sunrise is a great way to start the day.

It’s really is beautiful out here, people doing their thing on their farms or stores, everyone seems pretty happy.

Everyone since Bangkok has assumed Nicholas to be a farang (foreigner). I think it’s driving him a little crazy and giving him a identity disorder. I was riding next to him today and he was talking in some weird germanic language. Yeah, he’s losing it.

It’s a lot more hilly down here, more pain.

Nicholas nearly got bitten by a snake, but i think he really just ran over a stick. But he is sure is was a snake. He says it was a little horrifying.

Had a great lunch up in the hills in between Pathiu and Chumpon – “Laht Nah” – something along the lines of noodles in sticky sauce. Passed out for half an hour and then hit the road again.
Strange though, within 30 minutes I was starving again and got that wobbly no energy feeling. Had to get a quick cola/sugar/biscuit fix then slowly came back to life.

15km or so we made it into Chumpon.

My legs are lead

We’ve been getting a bunch more video so hopefully we’ll be able to cut something together at the end of the trip. Perhaps what we lack in charisma we’ll have made up in kilometres.

total km today: 86km

1 Comments

• At Mon 20, July 2009, Bart Verkoeijen wrote:

  Seeing that last picture feels a bit frightening. Just that thin aluminium between you and a very painful road may you slip when you drive almost 90 KM/h down a unpredicatble road... ;-)

  But very cool, you guys really made a lot of KMs on basically just a bit of rubber + aluminium and a lot of manpower!

2 Comments

• At Sat 18, July 2009, ano wrote:

  super jealous teale! damn you and your long legs. i saw the bike in one of your pictures and was shocked they make them that big! photos looking good, i hope you're travelling light on the camera gear!

• At Sun 19, July 2009, Adam wrote:

  hey man!

  How are you?! How's your residency treating you so far? Bet u are busy!

  Ride is good, getting a bit more used to it.

  yeah travelling pretty light, - got the old faithful lx3, and a new macbook air!

It’s been a hard 2 days of riding, but i think we are starting to get rhythm.

Left the primo residence of Nick’s Aunty’s place at 5am, bag of left overs in hand.

The morning was interesting.

As we road the 15km to Hua Hin, the morning light started to pierce through the sky, and revealed some bad ass looking clouds in the sky. The big wet season “stay inside or die” type clouds.
Eating our left over dinner outside 711 we decided to throw precaution to the wind and roll on down the road.

Well it rained. And we kept on riding. Yep it was really not the big issue that folks had been warning us of.
It was actually a lot more comfortable than yesterday’s heat & wind.
Nick was worried about picking up a cold being out in the rain but i told him he was a pussy and we kept on riding. As we pedaled on and the rain kept on coming down, and I rethought Nick’s idea about getting sick. I agreed momentarily with him and stopped by to pick up some supplies from the cute girl working the chemist in Kuiburi. Ahhh she was beautiful.

After overpaying for lunch we left Kuiburi for the last few hours to Prachuab Khiri Khun.
Not as much excitement here as was in Kuiburi but we did meet our first slightly imposing hill.
To most riding folks it probably isn’t even considered an incline. But, it was raining, windy, a dog chased me 100m up the hill, and i was pretty tired.

We cruised in Prachuab Khiri Khun – cool little town by the sea – Small, interesting, next to the sea, crap french fries, awesome nam dofu.

Nopporn hotel – 400baht – free wifi, great rooms, clean and friendly

Before my iPhone’s battery died, MotionXGPS’s recording said we rode 130km or so.
I have to say, a good night’s sleep really really helps!

5 Comments

• At Thu 16, July 2009, Chayanon wrote:

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• At Thu 16, July 2009, BOAT wrote:

  Adam when you wear cycling suit you look like some hero from Japan but cool Na!

• At Thu 16, July 2009, the tall guy wrote:

  @Boat - 555 thanks, i tried to make it look as unfaggy as possible.

  Bike shorts look retarded but now I understand how important they are on the rode!

• At Thu 16, July 2009, Nick Ward wrote:

  We r now at a coffee shop in Chai-ya Suratthani! We did like 150km today so tired. Great to hear that rode to work today man. Keep it up! Thx for the cheering Mr.Jack hope you doin find:)

• At Mon 20, July 2009, Bart Verkoeijen wrote:

  Haha, watch the dogs.. Some of them can be pretty scary, they really like to bite things.

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1 Comments

• At Sun 7, June 2009, Boat wrote:

  I really love this trip . I smile when see those photo

  I didn't see you in the photo.

3 Comments

• At Tue 26, May 2009, nick wrote:

  Boat looks small but very strong in the 1st pic. lol

• At Tue 26, May 2009, Bart Verkoeijen wrote:

  Yes, you can obviously see that you all were VERY busy riding your bicycle. :-D Nice pics!

• At Wed 27, May 2009, Luke wrote:

  Wishing you a safe journey on your mega awesome ride to Singapore.