Been doing a lot of “touring” with the English cyclists and very little time for blogging.

Maybe  “Having a wonderful time wish you were here” would suffice. Visiting many of the spots we’ve already blogged about so photos are a little sparse. What is special about riding with this group has been the ability to talk and share the things we’ve learned about Thailand and the area we live in.  As you might imagine I don’t have much conversation when cycling with all my Thai buddies. Their English is enough to keep me out of trouble “Turn Right” and they know all of the 12 words of vocabulary I can understand, like the question “[you want] Khoa man kai?”.  With the English I can actually suggest “Would you like Chicken on Rice?” and they seem to understand my Yank accent just fine.

Thanks again to Chris, the tour leader, who allowed Stanna and me to accompany the group on most of the cycling legs of their tour around Trang. I’d sure like to show some Durango cyclists and friends this same area they enjoyed.  Let’s think about a couple weeks next year to get you all out here in the warm weather next winter.

The last day TigerSong led the group in a slow tour on the “back roads” right around Trang.  Mileage was short but the sights were great as he knew of sights we’d never seen within 5 km of our apartment.  One place was a shed we pass twice a day every day that forges agricultural knives.  We thought they were making charcoal but when TigerSong had us stop and dismount we could see and hear the “cling cling” of the

sledgehammers pounding and shaping out the bright orange steel into hooked knives.