Tonight's will be a very short entry because I am running out of ways to convey that riding a motorcycle under pouring rain is the pits. The rain today was sporadic but, on a scale of 1 to 10, there were times that it dumped on us with an intensity of 12! You were pretty much blind, and in spite of the poncho you could feel the water trickling into your neck, chest, and all the way down to your drawers. Talk about the WBMC!
To add insult to injury a car passed me as I was going through a puddle and sprayed me with dirty water from helmet to boots. I hope he reincarnates as a slug!
We have not had many mishaps during this trip, although Pat got a flat tire yesterday (to our good fortune it happened in town, just a few hundred meters from a tire repair shop), and my starter stopped working today (but I can kick start the bike).
So all things considered we are doing well. Today we had to ride hard because we were 350 km from Chiang Mai and we had to cover at least 160 km today. That will give us two days to get to Chiang Mai, with just enough time to return the bikes and catch our connections to our next destinations on the third day. Clearly we have not left ourselves enough of a margin of safety so let us hope no further trees fall across our path.
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