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My Country.
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They dumped the name 'New Holland' which had been given to Australia by some Dutch sailor.
The same sailor bestowed the name of his home island in Holland, the island of 'Zealand', on my country.
I am a very proud expat Kiwi, as those who know me will testify, but why we continue to have a love affair with the name given to our country by a Dutch sailor who never even set foot on our shores, I'll never know.
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April 21st.
Hua Hin to Kanchanaburi.

Wow. This was a hard ride. The temperatures were terrible. The air temperature on my bike, whilst riding, was, at one time, 41 C and once, when I stopped at a 7/11 went to 43 C. That's warm. It was oppressive at times.
I stopped so many times to re-hydrate, at 7/11’s. Amazon Coffee shops for fruit smoothies, and various road side stall for other drinks, I lost count of my intake. I know it was more than ten drinks in the 214 kilometer, six and a half hour ride, but I think most of it evaporated through my skin because I had no toilet brakes throughout the trip. Still. This is what Adventure is all about and ‘if it doesn’t kill ya it makes ya stronger’. (I read that somewhere but I’m not sure it it true.)
The route I took was, mostly, on Frontage roads but I did go off the beaten track towards the end of the ride and followed a river/canal/klong for quite a way and the drop in temperature when I was close to the water was quite noticeable. Remarkable really.
I try to leave early on my trips so I can ride in the cool of the morning but I’ve been hampered somewhat by Crohn's Disease. For those of you who know about Crohns you'll also know it respects no-one, nor at any time. So, usually I just have to wait it out which usually means my departure time is a lot later than I'd like. But what can you do? Squeeze and suck it in, as they say. Could be worse I suppose.
I met a guy in a pub the other night. Actually, he owns the pub/bar. Cuddles Bar in Kanchanaburi. Bill Warren. He organizes apart of the ANZAC Day services and he was telling me about the Commonwealth War Graves Commission which looks after the Kanchanaburi Cemetery and the Cemetary just across the border in Myanmar. In fact, it looks after all of the Commonwealth War Graves throughout the world. What a remarkable organization. Those of you who may have been to one of their cemeteries will know just how wonderfully they are kept. What you may not know is that they have a website that has recorded every death of a Commonwealth soldier since WW1. All the details of the soldier and where he is buried in every country of the world. I mention this because if any of you have family who you have ‘lost’ in past conflicts, chances are high that the CWGC will know where they are. Just go to their website and they will tell you how to search. It's incredible.
People can be so innovative. I saw this photos on a website yesterday and just had to save it. The ultimate, all-purpose, travel machine.
I do not plan to do another ‘trip’ until Friday when I will head for Pattaya and Pratumnak and…..home. And then I’ll post another piece.
So, until then, Adventure Before Dementia.

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Chumphon to Hua Hin.

This turned out to be a five hour trip instead of the expected three and a half but it had a lovely part to it. After two hours of motorway driving I headed for the coast - much to Mrs Google Maps protests. She does not like to be disobeyed but I love it when she says “Make a U turn. Make a U turn” and I say “F**k off”.
I found a wonderful empty route following, for a large part of the way, the coast and for a lot of the way, only 20 meters from the sea. It was lovely. I believe the area was Mae Ram Phueng.

But, too soon that road ran out and time was not on my side so I high-tailed it back to the motorway. I’m a lot more confident on the motorways now so I am quite happy about riding them. However, they can be boring with many long straights and not much of a change of scenery for miles upon miles.(I wonder why I use the phrase ‘miles upon miles’ when I don’t use it it when calculating routes. I always use kilometers. Mmmmm. Maybe a flashback to my past when we did use miles, feet and inches in New Zealand - up until 1974, when we converted to metric.)
But it is on these boring long straights when the mind starts to wonder and and I recall having a conversation in my mind with my father - who has been dead for at least 30 years. The conversation was about technological advancements since his death - GPS, phone devices and USB Flash Drives. Would he believe? Just think about that yourselves. If you had a conversation about technological advancements with someone who had no idea of what you were talking about, how would you explain it? All they recall is the 70’s and 80’s. It would be a challange. In many ways we, those of us over 60, are the lucky ones. We have bridged the old and new. Thirty year old’s and younger do not know what was back then - but we do. They are more technically savvy than us….but we get through and have, I think, a good balance between old and new.
So I travelled approx. two hours on the motorway, one hour along the beach front and another hour and a half back on the motorway. One thing that makes it easier to ride the motorways is the Frontage Roads. They run almost exactly the same route as the motorways but with a lot less traffic. And, especially South of BKK they are two full lane wide, each way, and with a wide cycle lane on the left. They're great!
During the first two hours of the ride I was passed by two separate groups, about 30 minutes apart, of about 50 big bike riders in each group, headed south. I surmised they were either Singaporean or Malaysian. And, in a post that evening in Foreign motorcycle riders in Thailand was this photo:

I got to Hua Hin and was met by total disappointment. The hotel room I had booked was not what was advertised. I only look for four things when booking a room - good wifi, aircon, a desk and a refrigerator - for my beer. The room I’d booked, said it had all of that! But it didn’t! It did have aircon but there was no desk, no refrigerator and the woman who was running the place said ‘Sometimes wifi works. Sometimes not’. It did not work. I left next morning and she gave me one nights refund. That was a plus but it wasted a lot of time.
Anyway, Adventure Before Dementia.
Talk again tomorrow.

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!8th. April 2024.
Surat Thani to Chomphon.

Four perplexing questions that I struggled with during my Surat Thani to Chumphon ride.
One: How come all of the gasoline stations that also have 7/11’s and other food and coffee shops are always on the other side of the motorway going in the opposite direction to me?
and
Two: How come, after one hours driving, I want to take a two hour nap?
and
Three: How come so many fat - No. Grossly overweight - Thai young men ride motorscooters with grace and skill and seemingly effortlessness?
and
Four: How come Grab, Panda etc riders on 125 cc Honda Waves, loaded to the gunnels with deliveries, nonchalantly wizz by me on the open highway as if I'm standing still?
The ride from Surit Thani to Chumphon was totally uneventful with, the exception of my four perplexing questions and a surprisingly good hotel room at the end in Chomphon. “The Mercy Hotel”. Small and quiet with huge rooms. I don't recall any hotel, anywhere in the world that I have stayed at, having such a large room. A real gem.
I suspect, with the name ‘Mercy’ that it might have some religious connections, and I didn't see a bar, but nor did I hear any tambourines, so I don't know, but I would recommend it if you're ever down in Ol’ Chomphon.
I am starting to relax a little when riding on the motorways. I'd prefer not to but sometimes it's unavoidable and now that I can relax a bit I'm not so knotted up and tense at the end of my rides. That's a big plus for me.
I relooked at the issue I had with my burnt saddle bag. It wasn't an overheated muffler. It was the exhaust itself. That sticky out bit that's comes out of the muffler. As far as I can make out the corner of the bag must have been resting on it. Could have been worse I suppose and the whole bag could have melted. I'll manage.
I'll try to keep in touch again tomorrow but it's a long ride to Hua Hin so don't know when I'll be able to ‘fire up’ the laptop.
Until,whenever….
Adventure Before Dementia.

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