Thailand Laos Trip: Post 1

Bicycle trip through northern Thailand and Laos.

Seven years ago my brothers James and Morgan missed a bus and walked 35 Km through mountainous Laos. For years they have been saying that it would have been so much better if they had bikes. This summer we finally started planning to cycle from Northern Thailand and into Laos.

Story inside,This week we arrived in Chiang Mai, Thailand with our bikes on the train with us.


We spent a day in Chiang Mai riding around and getting the bikes adjusted for the trip ahead.



The next morning before dawn we started north for a small town called Phrao. It was pretty flat for the first couple of hours and there was a lot of road traffic. The further we rode the steeper the road became and the better the scenery got. Mountains, small villages, rice fields ... something you only see in movies.


We stopped for lunch in the mountains at a waterfall and ended up spending the whole day there. We stopped to take some pictures and got a couple of decent ones. After walking up the waterfall James suggested that I try to ride down it. The rocks were like sand paper and it was easier to ride down the waterfall than it is to ride over the rocks and roots of the north shore.





We spent the night in a tent and then started out again before dawn. It was a pretty cold, sleepless night and it was pretty cold for the first dozen kilometers. But everything seems better on a bike.

Tomorrow will be another early morning and another day on my bike. Another perfect day ...

Keep riding,

Rob

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