6th May 2014      Rest day  0km Yesterday evening I had the idea to get the bike washed again, as it was filthy from the ride to Muang Sing.   There was a bike wash place only 100M away, so I pushed the bike off the stand to head there, but the bike didn’t move.  A flat tyre, this time in the rear.  As it was approaching dusk, and no one likes working on a dirty bike, I decided to address the tyre problem in the morning….

5th May 2014          28’C        190km Today I made bit of an exploratory ride into the mountain villages around Luang Namtha.  Leaving at dawn, I rode up to Muang Sing and visited the morning market, which was eye-opening.  Alot of villagers bring their produce to the market for sale, and often are dressed in their colourful traditional dress.  On sale were all sorts of fruit, vegetable, meats, insects and other potentially edible objects.   There were also a couple of very persistent…

4th May 2014    24’C     202km I was up and ready up go at 7:30am this morning, so headed to the customs house to meet Na for the bridge crossing to Laos.  I was sitting by the river waiting, and checking over paperwork when I noticed that the Thai customs import form, that was filled in by the customs officer, was full of mistakes. The engine number on the form was actually my passport number… My passport number was some other random number,  My nationality was…