Motorcycle – Page 3 – 2 wheels and an engine

(13) MHS-Long Sweeping Bends to Mae Sot

Dec.4 – We will be heading to Mae Sot today. Along the way, we will visit Tawo Pier, another border post to Myanmar. It is about 90km from our starting point. This would be the penultimate boundary post visit for this trip. This means that we have traversed a large passable and accessible sector ofContinue reading “(13) MHS-Long Sweeping Bends to Mae Sot”

(14) Southbound-Mae Sot to Chai Nat

Dec 5, 2022, 10am-RIM MOEI MARKET This would be the last border checkpoint visit for our Northern Borderline Chase. This market has been around for decades. Merchants from both sides do business and their goods move through this border. Here, Myanmar and Thailand is separated by the Moei River but connected by a sturdy concreteContinue reading “(14) Southbound-Mae Sot to Chai Nat”

(15) Southbound-Chai Nat to Nakhom Pathom

Eco/Agro Tourists

(18)Southbound-Surat to Hadyai/SG, Dec.9 & 10

Dec. 9-Of all days, I have to wake up late today, despite KM7 knocking on my door. When I finally woke, they had all breakfasted. Mine was sitting on the table at the patio getting cold. I hurried through, got dressed, and load up, just in time to not delay departure. Didn’t check the phoneContinue reading “(18)Southbound-Surat to Hadyai/SG, Dec.9 & 10”

(19) Closing 11NAN22 with a curve ball

Bike has got new fluids and gone through a round of cleaning. Needs another deep-clean though. Travelling equipment washed, sunned, and stored. Journal for the trip posted and copies filed. There are 19 posts, including this, in all. However, I am sure that there are moments overlooked, simply because there are so many of themContinue reading “(19) Closing 11NAN22 with a curve ball”

The Side Trip (or making a short story long)

Bridge of the River Kwai While browsing through past pics, came across some that brought back extremely vivid recollection of Kanchanaburi, where we stopover for a night during a 15-day trip to Thailand’s North years ago. We were heading South after spending more then a week riding in the North. Our previous stop was NakhonContinue reading “The Side Trip (or making a short story long)”

Re(motor)cycled

Mecca of Asian Bikers Desperately bored. Surfing and watching endless You Tubes. So decide to do some housekeeping to my computer and external HDD. Came across a summary of a road trip in North Thailand, in 2005, written before blogging became commonplace. Thought I recycle and post it. So here goes. A mildly edited versionContinue reading “Re(motor)cycled”

SG/VN/SG Road Trip

Of pho & baguette, motorcycles & musicFortunately, I was accepted for the ride to Vietnam by the organiser, Patrick Tham. It was already the last day of 2019, with barely enough time to get the documents sorted for crossing multiple borders by road from S’pore to Vietnam. Date of travel was 31 Jan. 2020. ItContinue reading “SG/VN/SG Road Trip”