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Issue 03 - Isaan, Thailand + Laos: Part One
It was a whirlwind of a wild time in Bangkok (not what you're thinking... even wilder, actually) which led to a 10-day roadtrip through Thailand's most unvisited yet biggest region, crossing over the Friendship Bridge on the old bike powered by older legs and into the laid-back possibly-lazy Laos, through the gorgeous valleys of ripe rice paddies and up into the mountains.
So much adventure there that I had to split up the Issues into a Part One and Two of Laos.
Lots here in Issue 03—an entire day with a famed streetfood lady in Bangkok, stinky rotten fish sauce that became addictive, more, ahem, personal problems that men sometimes deal with, what really went down last year in Africa... Plus a lot more.
Welcome back to On Going!
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BACK IN BANGKOK — A DAY WITH LA — ON: DEPRESSION — A JOURNEY THROUGH ISAAN — INTERVIEW: ANDREW BENFIELD— LAOS: NOTES
A happening month and one that saw another trip around the sun for your personal-and-slightly overpriced storyteller here.
Speaking of which—I went into this in the email, but will write it again—the new plan is:
- Spend another week here in Hanoi
- Fly with the bike to Seoul
- Cycle from the top (or as close to North Korea as the government will allow), allllll the way to the bottom
- Fly with the bike to Sapporo
- And then start what will hopefully be three months in Japan doing the same thing—cycling basically from the northern tip all the way to bottom. (Seeing Japan has been a dream of mine ever since I was 10 or 11, so if we can make this work, it'll be huge.)
... which means for this month, I'd see if you had somewhere between $6-7 bucks of loose change in your couch cushion. That should see me through South Korea. It'll probably jump up to $8-9 in Japan, but I promise to document the PANTS off of that country. Maybe even bring back Instagram Stories? Whatever it takes.
Love you. Mean it. Am off to enjoy one more week of Hanoi (of which I am completely smitten and can't wait to show/tell you about).
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