We left lovely Phenom Penh and headed towards Siem Reap. We rode two very long (mileage) and very flat days. Between the two cities there is a long flat highway filled with trucks delivery goods. There were few small villages but the noise from trucks on the four lane highway dissolved all of the intimacy …
Continue reading Phenom Penh to Siem Reap: 2 Days 317k (197 miles)
Kratie to Kampong Cham: 125k (78 miles) If you don’t already know, it’s the Men’s Futbol (or Soccer) World Cup and it’s being played in Qatar. Let me say GO USA! Great game against Iran and now the USA advances to the round of 16. I am also supporting Portugal, England, and Japan. However, if …
Continue reading Kratie to Phenom Penh: 2 Days and 232km (141 miles)
In my last post I lamented the fact that I could not upload pictures because the wifi upload was too slow. I was finally able to get a decent wifi connections to upload some pictures. These are pictures that should have accompanied the last post. Pictures from Krong Strung Treng to Kratie I love the …
Prelude to the this blog…it’s been very frustrating and difficult to upload photos on the trip. The wifi in the hotels is good for downloading email and news but not so good for uploading pictures. It has slowed me down by weeks trying to upload photos. Going forward I will post the blog without pictures …
Continue reading Hoi An Vietnam to Kratie, Cambodia: 6 Days 748km (462 miles) and a lot of climbing.
Day 1 Hue to Lang Co: 84k (52 miles) If you don’t already know Erika is a genius. I’m so lucky that she’s my spouse. She’s always looking out for me and she always trying to improve mechanical things. She decided that our rear fenders were doing a spectacularly bad job at protecting us from …
Continue reading Hue to Hoi An: 2 days 158km (98 miles) + Rest Day in Hoi An
Thank you Bonnie Goldsmith for alerting me that I did not post pictures of the cave in Fong Nha. As a reminder, the caves of Fong Nha is a designated UNESCO world heritage site. It is also a national park in Vietnam. The caves are made of limestone and through the thousands of years water …
My first blog post from the road was difficult to publish. A combination of a slow writer, slow wifi to upload photos, and the bugginess of Word Press makes for a slow user experience. My apologies! What is notable in Vietnam in the small villages and large cities is that everyone seems to have a …
Continue reading Phong Na to Hue: 221km (137 miles) plus rest day in Hue
After four days playing around Hanoi it’s time to start what we came here for, cycling. I had to shift my mind set to get ready for long hours on the bicycle, dealing with traffic and routing, and hydration and nutrition. I want to start the ride with a clear mind with no worries or …
Continue reading Bamboo Road Stages 1 – 5 Hanoi to Huong Khe
There was a don’t ask don’t tell policy in my house growing up in regards to my father’s experience in the Korean and Vietnam war. I heard many stories about his 22 year career in the Navy but my father never told me about his experience in the Korean or Vietnam wars and some how …
Map of tour “Bamboo Road” Hanoi, Vietnamese to Singapore We are getting ready for another multi-month bike trip to South East Asia, a part of the world we have never been before. We are so excited to see things we can’t even imagine now, hear languages that we can’t name or decipher, taste wonderful new …
Mountains R Calling 