Was up early and the owner of the hotel asked me to come back for a free breakfast, not one to pass up the free breakfast I said yes, so headed out to Angkor Wat, wanted a photo of me and my bike and trailer in front of the Great Wat, and I got it to. It is a shame the sunrise rubbish, it was cloudy so there was not much of one, but I got my picture so I was happy.
Headed back to the hotel and had breakfast and then headed off, I thought for a second when I was leaving the owner was going to hug me, but no I missed out. Out on the road again and 147km to go, it was now about 10 to 7 so really had to get underway, at least with the cloud cover it was not going to be too hot for a while.
SO out on the road and heading through town, caught a tow with a truck as it slowly made it’s way through the thick traffic, had to let go a couple of times as the truck nearly ran me into a few people on the side of the road. After this had to use leg power for a bit, I had done maybe 20km and was going along pretty well when I came to a village and managed to catch another tow with another truck. This one was a lot longer and a lot faster, had to let go in the end as we made it onto the open road again.
I was having a good morning, I stopped at about 10.30am for second breakfast and then back on the road again, now this is where it got even better, I had done about 50km so was making good time, then a people mover type Moto came passed, it was going faster than me so I speed up and jumped into the slipstream, and this is how we stayed for the next 40km I managed to keep up, and it was great, I was able to rest a little, it all finally came to an end at the next town we came to, the whole Moto waved good bye to me which was sweet, then I carried on down the road a bit and stopped for water and a sweet drink.
After getting back on the road I had no tows for the next 10km then you would not believe it the Moto carrier came up beside me and the driver pointed at the bar at the side so tow it was, and I stayed like that for about 10km and then they stopped in the next town we came to, so it was turning out to be a good day. The rest of the trip to Kampang Thom was just hot and sweaty, my knee got a little sore at the end but it was at the end so I survived.
Now let’s get down to business, CAMRY’s, that’s right people Toyota camry’s there a classic car, built with water bed suspension and a ability to cruise at 110 forever. Now I am slightly byist as I owned one, but I was correct in buying one, because 2/3 of all cars on Cambodia’s roads are Toyota Camry’s that’s right I have done two counts now, one between the Cambodian border and Siam Reap and again today and 2/3 of cars are Camry’s. The other 1/3 is made up of Toyota landcrusiers and a smattering of everything else you can think of.
So 2/3 of Cambodian drivers can’t be wrong. Or Toyota dumped a boat load of Camry’s in Cambodia at sometime, O yes there is a Varity of years and models, so really that just points to a good car.
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