Found food, I love these little food stalls that they have in asian countries, we need more in western countries instead of fast food restaurants. Went to bed early because I had a pretty big day the next day, it was the first time I had ridden two days in a while so I wanted lots of sleep. Sleep would have been good, first I had some kids running around outside then when they had gone to bed some people started talking and did not stop for hours. Well it seemed like hours.
After I finally got to sleep I had dreams all night, sorry Terry I lost liam in one of them, don’t worry after we got the car out of the lake where you parked it we did find him. Yep they were those sort of dreams. That was the only one I really remember. When my alarm went off at 5:30am I was not ready to get up, I managed to force myself to get up and out, stopped at the old 7 eleven for a snack as I was feeling hungry then it was off.
The kms passed by and I stopped about 8:30 for breakfast of noodle soup I had been after something with rice but that was not to be, back on the bike the kms were ticking away nicely so stopped again around 10am, this time for some more snack food. This is where my morning got interesting, this old fella was walking passed and took a fancy to my bike and came over for a chat. No English me no Thai this was going to be fun.
He started asking me about my bike tongue going at ninety miles an hour, I did a lot of nodding and trying to explain how it worked, this I must say was to the great amusement of the ladies down the road who kept throwing comments his way, which he would then yell back something and laughter would ensue. I of cause did not understand any of what they were saying. After about ½ an hour I finally made a move to head away, we shuck hands and I headed off with him watching the bike as I went.
The road had been fairly flat so far, but now the rolling hills started, I made pretty good time along this stretch, top gear down the hills and nearly top gear up them as well. Stopped for lunch at 11:30 fried rice with seafood, not sure about the sea food considering how far in land I was but it tasted pretty good. More rolling hills followed after lunch, at one point I caught a tow behind a tractor trailer which was great because it was a long hill, the guy did not seem to mind to much he waved good bye as he turned off the main road.
Saw two snakes today and ran over one of them, not on purpose, he was heading across the road so I cut between him and the grass edge, just at that moment a truck came along so the snake turned and headed back to the grass, I missed it with the bike but the trailer caught it on the way through. I think it survived but will be a bit sore tomorrow.
Also had my first close encounter with a dog, mostly they just go for the trailer but this one came for me, I managed to unclip my foot and planted a nice solid kick to the head, which I know sounds bad but it was him or me that got injured, for some reason after that it stopped chasing me. It’s friends ran along besides the bike but did not come very close and then gave up the chase.
That was really about my day, I don’t feel very enthusiastic about riding at the moment, I kinda am struggling to get back into it really. I am hoping after my spiritual awakening at the temples of Angkor I will get back into it more, it might help if I can meet up with the German guys and ride with them for a bit. Will have to see. Angkor will show me the way.
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