Dave and Jen For Oxfam

This is just a quick stop-gap update to say that we have landed and have made it through our first day of riding! I have a longer post from the flight and first day to finish, but the booooming niteclub next door to the hotel we are currently in has finally turned off the music and made viable the previously ludicrous concept of, well, sleeping. After 75k’s of riding today, i’m ready for some decent sleep. The good news is this hotel has wifi so i have adjusted some of the Lightroom workflow for the photos, and will begin uploading photos in the morning. There’s a few tweaks left to do to automate as much of this as possible, which will make it easier to make posts and upload photos. I’ll have a lot of time to write at the border tomorrow no doubt. We depart early to breakfast on Pho, before attacking the first of 30k’s ride to the Cambodian border, and another 70k’s after that.

Until then hang in and check the twitter updates on the side. In short, we are having even more fun than we thought we would, and today alone has felt like two seperate days in one. Amazing. From very tourist things like shooting an AK47 rifle, to the simple amazement of little kids running out of their modest huts to shout “hellloooo” at us, and giggling at our attempts of “Xin chào” in return. For now, its bed time. Dave out!