By Cycle

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them… while in a motor car you would have no such accurate remembrance of a country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ”
– Ernest Hemingway

Best way round Siem Reap – By Cycle

As King Solomon said, nothing is new. I wanted to talk about how it was only after I started really cycling anywhere and everywhere that I became intimately acquainted with the topography of my island city. Nothing like balancing on two wheels, not even strolling or jogging, to tell you the subtle sign of a slope. Every mound is resistance and every dip is relief. And to top it off, each tread on the pedal brings a ribbon of breeze to breath through. No helmets or windshield corners to interrupt your view, it’s just you, your handlebars, your legs and the road.

Well I guess Hemingway got that first.

Train Travel

Aranyaprathet west to Bangkok.

The third class carriage was our warm capsule through the wind and rain. The tracks were bolted to the ground, but really, it was the start of our flight through adventure.