95km Sihanoukville to Chamkar Luong “Don’t you want to take the bus?” The receptionist at the hotel couldn’t quite understand why we would want to go to Phnom Penh by bicycle. Neither could the customers at the small restaurant where we ate breakfast. “Where you go?” asked one woman in broken English when we rolled […] Read More »
Video Fiesta
Here goes with another bunch of movies from the road. First in the list is a cooking video. We had an idea in Central Asia that it would be fun to do a series of shows about the food we cook on the road so this video is the first attempt. With so much good […] Read More »
Cyclists on the move in Canada
A little public service announcement here 😉 We have two sets of friends, both couples, who are currently cycling through Canada. One couple – Son & Ali – have been on the road for a while and are going down the west coast and through the U.S. towards South America. The other couple – Scott […] Read More »
Monsoon Cycling
105km Kampot to Sihanoukville It rained in the morning as we were packing our bags. It rained as we dashed to the supermarket to buy a fetching yellow rain poncho (really just a plastic garbage bag with head and arm holes). It rained as we crossed the bridge out of Kampot and past the first […] Read More »
Learning how to slow down… the hard way
165km Phnom Penh to Kampot One of our goals when we started this trip was learning how to slow down a bit and not be driven by schedules. Maybe we should have remembered that when we set off from Phnom Penh two days ago. Friedel wasn’t feeling entirely well – a small headache and a […] Read More »