Author: Chris
Dead Drive…
A series on lock ups and uncooperative programs was the beginning of a week long mystery. Amanda would patiently ask if we could upload photos of Laos and after a frustrating session of nothing productive the answer was: No. Late night sessions digging around revealed a peculiar abnormality…100% disk utilization, continuously. For an easy to […]
Temple Ruins in Ayutthaya

Our excellent choice of accomodations at the Ayutthaya place included a light breakfast of coffee and bread, but the innkeeper was feeling extra generous and cooked us fried egg and hot dogs as well. Sufficiently fed and caffeinated we set off on bike in search of ruins. Breezing around on our bicycles we are freed […]
Bad Road Choices to Ayutthaya

Bikes loaded and panniers packed we were ready for our first day of touring since arriving nearly a week ago. We waved goodbye to the now familiar faces at Shanti Lodge and wondered why our coffee lady was absent today. Routing past the Dusit Palace we found ourselves on well marked bike lanes, a miracle! Our […]
Aimless Tourists

Originally booked for one night our morning ritual at the Shanti Lodge has been to extend our visit one more night; today was no different. A habit was starting to form and as we walked to our normal Thai coffee vendor and ordered the usual. The ever present tuk-tuk driver solicited us with the singular “tuk”. […]
Chatuchak Market & The Grand Palace

Consulting a map, our guidebook, and our desire to see each corner of Bangkok’s local and tourist scene we hopped on borrowed single speeds and left from the Shanti Lodge destine for Chatuchak Market. The ride was the usual wrestling with cars for space while ourselves and the motorcycles weave through traffic. Accidentally turning down closed roads […]