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Entering Laos and Finding Champasak

December 28, 2024 - Khong Chaim to Pakse, Laos - 71 kms - Le Jardin Hotel December 29, 2024 - Pakse to Champasak - 45 kms - Anouxa Riverview Guesthouse  December 30, 2024 - 30 kms day ride - Anouxa Riverview Guesthouse Crossing a border into a new country is never easy. There is always a certain amount of anxiety around the process at the ...

By |2024-12-30T03:49:49-08:00December 30, 2024|Categories: 2024 South East Asia|Tags: , , |4 Comments

Cycling in Isaan: Road Conditions

December 23, 2024 - Khao Phra Wihan National Park to Ban Wari Udom - 45 kms - Kanthiya Garden Hotel December 24, 2024 - Ban Wari Udom to Det Udom - 54 kms - Saabpaiboon Grand Resort  Our mood sobered quickly today when we passed a recent fatal accident. We know it was fatal because the body was still lying on the road bundled in ...

By |2024-12-24T02:40:46-08:00December 24, 2024|Categories: 2024 South East Asia|Tags: , , , |1 Comment

Preah Vihear

December 18, 2024 - Phanom Rung to Prasat - 69 kms - Thongpaeka Hotel December 19, 2024 - Prasat to Sangkha - 66 kms - Manee Sangkha Hotel December 20, 2024 - Sangkha to Ban Nong Khen - 69 kms - Terawadi Resort  December 21, 2024 - Ban Nong Khen to Khao Phra Wihan National Park - 48 kms - Farm Stay December 22, 2024 ...

By |2024-12-22T15:40:05-08:00December 22, 2024|Categories: 2024 South East Asia|Tags: , , |4 Comments

Phanom Rung and Prasat Muang Tam

December 17, 2024 - Ban Chaloem Phra Kiat - Smart Resort - 34 km day ride Gordon: Today we did an unladen ride to a couple of Khmer sites, Phanom Rung and Prasat Muang Tam.  They were both constructed by successive regimes between the 10th and 13th centuries, but predominantly by the Angkor culture in the 11th and 12th centuries.  Almost all of the iconography ...

By |2024-12-17T04:56:00-08:00December 17, 2024|Categories: 2024 South East Asia|Tags: , , |6 Comments

Settling into the Village life in Isaan

December 15, 2024 - Phimai to Ban Nong Hong - 60 kms - Pimaka Resort December 16, 2024. - Ban Nong Hong - Chaloem Phra Kiat - 58 kms - Smart Resort Ruth: We have been making our way slowly through Isaan, the region that makes up the northeast of Thailand. It is the poorest region of the country and very few tourists venture into ...

By |2024-12-16T04:53:33-08:00December 16, 2024|Categories: 2024 South East Asia|Tags: , , |6 Comments

Elephant !

December 7, 2024 - Bang Ka Nak - Baan Nong Juan (near Prachin Buri) - 62 Kms - Panpim Resort December 8, 2024 - Baan Nong Juan to North Gate, Khao Yai National Park - 65 kms - Issan Isan Concept Resort December 9, 2024 - Issan Isan Concept Resort - 0 kms (jungle tour) December 10, 2024 - Issan Isan Concept Resort - 29 ...

By |2024-12-10T04:54:31-08:00December 10, 2024|Categories: 2024 South East Asia|Tags: , |8 Comments

A Wobbly Start

On Saturday, three days before our flight to Bangkok, I made a last trip to the Public Works yard to dispose of a utility trailer load of fruit tree prunings and other yard waste.  As I was pulling the loaded trailer up our moss covered driveway I slipped, fell, and dropped the heavy steel trailer tongue on my knee, pushing it in a direction it ...

By |2024-12-04T15:30:11-08:00December 4, 2024|Categories: Travels|Tags: |15 Comments

Finding a New Line

April 23, 2024 - Marciac - Lacrabere - 26 kms - Gite Castaine April 24, 2024 - Lacrabere - Morlaas - 29 kms - Hotel Bourgneuf April 25, 2024 - Morlaas - Aubertin - 29 kms - Maison de Fleurie  After much hand wringing and back and forth with the pros and cons we have decided to leave the Voie d’Arles just before Orloron-Saint-Marie and ...

By |2024-04-25T23:58:56-07:00April 25, 2024|Categories: 2024 Arles to Santiago|Tags: , , , |8 Comments

Pilgrim Gite: Ecluse Sanglier

April 16, 2024 Avignonet- Lauragais -  Baziege - 26kms - Ecluse de Sanglier April 17, 2024 - Baziege - Toulouse - 29kms - L’Authentique Cour de Ville April 18, 2024 - Toulouse - Mérenvielle - 30kms - Villa de Rabailly When Jean-Marie was checking me in at the pilgrim gite at the Ecluse de Sanglier (canal lock of the wild boar) he asked me my ...

By |2024-04-18T09:52:56-07:00April 18, 2024|Categories: 2024 Arles to Santiago|Tags: , , , , |16 Comments
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