Rest day today and we needed this. We had thought Khon Kaen would be this popping city but it's really a drab busy, traffic city. We were able to find massages which helped and the food wasn't bad either, but once you've been in one big city in Thailand, they all start looking the same wherever you go. So we're excited about getting the hell out of here and start riding again.
We looked at our maps and guide book and have decided to head south on Highway #2 to a small city called Phi Mai. Phi Mai is on the World Heritage and is an ancient Khmer site with ruins built before Angor Wat. So it was built somewhere around the 8th century.
We've also removed Cambodia from our list of riding. Just not enough time to fit it in. To do a trip like this you really need to spend a lot of time looking at detailed maps of the countries and have some degree of knowledge of where guesthouses are located. There are many cyling sites online that provide all this information, it just takes time to wade through it all. And some of it is grossly out of date and guesthouses are closed. We had found this out in Laos in talking with different groups of cylists who had come from the south of Laos and who had ridden through Cambodia. So it's a good decision for us as I need to be back in Bangkok on the 15th before flying back to US on the 18th to pay King George's War Tax.
I'll post pictures at a later post as where we are now, the computers don't allow for USB memory stick use.
Later
Len
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