Cycling Day 1

I started really early this morning.  We'll I intended to.  I was cycling by 9am, when I wanted to be on the road by 7am to beat the heat.  I was making good pace because most of the trip was down hill.  


By mid-afternoon the heat was really getting to me.  I took a short break under a shelter when a lovely old lady noticed me.  She beckoned me to here house and invited me to eat lunch with her family.  One look and my rational brain shouted bacteria, diarrhea, dysentery, dehydration, suffering.  My explorer brain said go one, you don't ever suffer from those ailments.  So I joined them for lunch.  Quite tasty in fact.


The little old lady who didn't speak a word of English was happy to show me pictures of her two daughters married to farrang and living in either Denmark or America.  Not only are hoards of old men coming here and marrying up all the Thai ladies but they are also being exported en mass.


There wasn't enough daylight for me to make it to Pha Taem so I stopped for the night at another park called Kaeng Tana National Park.  There is no reason to go there.  Ever.  Unless you need somewhere to hang your hammock that sounds nice.