Last night we got soaked during dinner, a torrential rainstorm erupted, blowing away our little Gazebo of the restaurant we were sitting under, in fact, if it was not for the restaurants signs and Light-Boxes attached to the gazebo we might have lost Tex who hung on for dear life while the rest of us took the Lazy-Susan and ran. I took only the water and the wine, the food, once again was not worth saving, the dishes that we ordered the last 7 nights have all been pure Chilly infused with Battery Acid, sprinkled with every type of Green Pepper and red peppers, before the third carefully-balanced-rice-on-a-stick reaches my mouth the sweat already runs down my face.… Read More
Author: Johan Fleischer (Page 8 of 37)
Here are more photos of yesterdays road, below is me holding up the best find of this entire trip, they sell a tin of Express Coffee chilled and slightly creamy and slightly sweet, why is this product not available all over the world?
Frogs were also on the menu, all shapes, colours and sizes.
The rain was so intense that eventually these two gave-up the safety of their protective gear and rain suites.… Read More
You can see from the title above I stopped counting the days as we are not riding anymore and today is a travel-day as we start traveling home.
Yesterday we Locked away the Bakkie (but kept the bikes to ride around town and to go to dinner with last night, there is something exhilarating about riding around without your helmet in this Jungle Village together with packs of scooters.)… Read More
… The packing has started, I dont know how I am going to fit my new screen into my suitcase. You might remember I fell in Mongolia and the my screen for the entire Leg 9 was held together with Duck-Tape, now I need to take the new screen, plus some oil and radiator coolant (we used the last of our oil and coolant on the last leg.)… Read More
I woke-up at 6h00 Yesterday morning and have not stopped running or slept since, and it is now 22h30 Thursday night, 40,5 hours later. And we have now only done three of the four flights to get to Maung Xay, we have the last flight tomorrow at noon, and we almost did not make it to Vientiane, (the capital if Laos,) as the aeroplane we were sitting in at Bankok airport developed a technical problem and we had to disembark after sitting inside for 30 minutes and move to another plane.… Read More
Today we took a tuk-tuk to the airport and had to fight with the check-in staff to allow us to check in our tyres, rims and oil and radiator fluid and chain lube. In the end they just took our chain-lube and the rest got loaded onto the little twin-prop plane.
We managed to get all the Bakkie & bikes started, then paid the local Property Tycoon’s son the balance for the storage (not often you see this crowd paying a Land Lord, usually the other way around.)… Read More
We had our Breakfast of noodles, rice and chilly-vegetable, but because they have tourist there once a year we also got a fried egg with something similar to a Vienna-sausage, (just not as “good” quality as back home,) and were ready to ride at 8h00, (well, not all as Peens overslept and we only managed to find his room number 10 minutes to 8h00, so he had not time to dress into his riding gear and spent the day in shorts, a T-Shirt and luckily his boots.)… Read More
Tex is training to run the St. Petersburg marathon with Sergei, the back-up driver form the Siberian trip, Leg 8, so he wanted to run 30km this morning, and as good mates do, we all offered to also wake up early and each do a few kilometers, but at 5h00 it started raining heavily and I was sure the run would not take place, but it did, only for Tex who started running at 4h00 before the rain came down, so we got lucky.… Read More
Last night we went down to the river (a smaller river that flows into the Mekong.) The locals have build little restaurants along its banks selling food to the tourists with bread-rolls (baguettes) and Hamburgers and French Fries (another sign the place is on the brink of becoming a tourist trap) on the menu. But true to form we found the little bridge they had built with bamboo going across.… Read More
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