Hot day for riding

Day 40 Miles: 120 Mileage from start: 3,652 We slept well and dried out the tent at the hotel. The weather forecast called for heat and humidity. Come what may. As soon as we walked out of the hotel, the heat felt like a heavy weight. Oh, well. We started biking and slogged along all […]

Exploring Railay peninsula in Thailand

We landed in Bangkok in the early morning and were immediately confused as to how we should get to our connecting flight to Krabi. There were multiple immigration ports and we had to choose the right one or end up on the wrong end of the airport.  After some exasperation and trying to ask airport […]

The heat rolls on

Miles: 1489.8 to 1510.3 Mileage: 20.5, plus 2.6 to Castella for resupply and 0.1 from camp Day: 76 We woke up with the alarm today. The goal was to make it to the store in Castella and the post office before it closed at 3 p.m.  The end result was that we made it just […]

Of alcoves and altitude changes

Miles: 61.7 to 82 Mileage: 20.3 Day: 4    Body status update: Day one felt great. We made good time and nothing seemed to slow us down; not heat, not liters and liters of water, not five days of food. Day two was painful. Sore feet, hips, shoulders, the beginnings of blisters, etc. My energy […]