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
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!