When I travel I become hungry for writing--to relive my experiences, to revel in describing luscious rich smells and sights. I've opened a new platform for this current adventure; I had been blogging on Livejournal but that feels rather college freshman now, and Blogger is obligingly user-friendly and slick.
The skinny and sunburned is this: I've finished a master's in Soil Science, I am at one of those junctions in life between closing the door and opening the next window. So there is no better time to pack my bike and some good sunscreen off to Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
YES I am going with a friend so just un-twist your knickers.
The rather unshaped plan is this (the only crumb I can manage for you logistics lovers you): fly into Bangkok on January 24th, spend a week in the best shopping best hotels best medical clinics worst traffic, then head south along the coast, cross into Cambodia, eat mango sticky rice, stay at little lodges (no camping gear for us, thank you), apply more bug-spray, cross into Vietnam, slurp some pho, then pedal north up Vietnam to Hanoi.
I expect this to be about 1800 miles? If we do 40 miles a day this'll take us about 45 days. But days on the beach happens and tropical diarrhea happens and beautiful distracting temples happen, so who really knows?
But the point of this is to move, to see, to explore, so I'm not worried about logistics.
Please do come with me!
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