Quint: The next morning after breakfast, we dropped our rucksacks (and passports!!) off at the bike shop and roared out of town.
A black Kawasaki 650, a Honda 450 and our lovely purple Honda Phantom cruiser 200, yes you said it, we redefined the term “cool”!
Even though the Phantom didn’t do zero to a hundred in the blink of an eye, we had a lovely crafted machine, chromed to the nines with gears as long as a ballerinas legs and an engine that purred like a tiger! And – I’m not finished – to top it all off, I even had the babe on the back! I’ll say it again, just to remind you – super cool.
The first day was a lot for us. I suppose we were on such a high we just kept driving! When we finally checked our map and saw we had in one day almost done a 3rd of our 7 day plan!
We stayed in a town called Tha Ton (otherwise known as ‘The Swiss Alpes of South East Asia), a lovely small town set in a valley on a meandering river by the name of “Kok”. We finally booked into a nice deserted hotel on the river, and that afternoon found a boar driver to take us up the river to the Burmese border. Unfortunately we weren’t shot at by soldiers on the Burma side, but we did get to swim in the river and float all the way back down to our hotel.
We had teamed up with another Aussie guy who Blake had met in Chiang Mai. An interesting fellow to say the least. He went by the name of Mark Green and his favourite thing to do was to twist his French ‘mo’ into curly points and write weird thoughts in this diary. Apart from that he was good humour to have on the trip.
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