Kota Tinngi to Mersing

Well what a day 92km, 6.5 hours. It started of all sweet and dandy, flat run out of the city just after 6am; sun was an hour or so away from rising. The birds were chirping and so was everything else.

Before for I start the road trip, the Nasha hotel in Kota tinngi is also used as a brothel, the love hotel, as Peter reeves puts it. From about 10 till about 2 in the morning lots of comings and goings, luckily I slept through most of it, I did say most but not all.

Anyway back to the ride, the first hour went well, averaged about 20km an hour and then it all slowed down to about 15km got to see some wild life on the way, I came across a large lizard at one point. It was DOMA (Dead on my arrival) After a 15 minute autopsy I deduced that it had been struck by something large and moving at high speed. Well I said to myself what moves at high speed around here, after a few minutes I gave up and got back on the bike and headed away.

Thinking about the lizard kept my mind away from the pain that was my arse, after a few km back on the bike that went away after it had gone num, I found another animal on the road which was also DOMA, a spotted cat of some sort. Another mystery never to be solved. The km were soon passing by, I knew this by all the signs on the side of the road, after you think you have been riding for ages and then you see the next sign and you have only gone 5 km it can get a bit annoying to say the least.

After eating bread and eggs which I had got the night before for breakfast, I stopped around 9 for second breakfast; this meant I would have about 40km left to go, not so bad. O did I mention there are lots of hills between Kota Tanngi and Mersing, No flat road at all. Legs were not too bad at this stage, the thing was the hill got a little bigger or that could have been that I was just slowing down. We know that would never happen.

Around the 30km mark my right Knee (the bad one) started to get sore, Could not really stop so just battled on, braving the pain, the heat of the sun and the crazy traffic. In Malaysia it is fine to pass into corners and also fine to just make it in before the other car coming the other way has to drive off the road. Gets exciting at times.

Anyway at about the 80km make the clouds seemed to darken somewhat and yes you guessed it the heavens opened up and the rain came down in buckets. It was very very nice, cooled me down a treat and wet everything in two out of the three bags I have. So have spent the afternoon drying things out. yippy...

After arriving in Mersing, using just my left leg to peddle as my right had had enough, no problem with my arse any more and then finding the hotel I was going to stay in had closed down
I managed to find somewhere and have booked tickets for ferry and hotel on Island, now I know I could get to island and find a place but the prices were about what was in the lonely bible I mean planet.

So am off to the Island of Pulau Tioman, lots of snorkeling and relaxing. I think I deserve a bit of a break.