2019 – Year in Review Blog Post
The end of the decade has come around fast. After crossing Europe in my first 7 months on the bike in 2018 I hit Asia - and wow it's big!…
Ben Around the World Diary – Day 163 – 9th December 2019
- ODO- 20500-20602km - Location- Bangkok, Thailand - Weather- 18-29 clear This morning I made it to Bangkok. For Christmas, I'm heading back to see my family. I don't want…
Ben Around the World Diary – Day 162 – 8th December 2019
- ODO- 20347-20500km - Location- Rung Rot Village, Thailand - Weather- 17-32 Thailand is easy to ride. The roads are wide and smooth and every 30km there's a service station…
Ben Around the World Diary – Day 161 – 7th December 2019
- ODO- 20191-20347km - Location- Over the border from Poipet, Thailand - Weather- 17-29 These last few days I've had lingering feelings of depression and boredom. From the mountains of…
Angkor Wat – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 160 – 5th December 2019
- ODO- 20042-20191km - Location- Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Weather- 28-32 high altitude cloud and haze I woke up like clockwork at 4:30am even though this is my day off.…
100 Miles in Cambodia – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 159 – 4th December 2019
- ODO- 19872-20042km - Location- 150km west of Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Weather- 28-32 high altitude cloud and haze Today I pushed myself. Siem Riep, my next short stop, is…
Phnom Penh – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 158 – 3rd December 2019
- ODO- 19757-19872km - Location- Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Weather- 28-32 high altitude cloud and haze Today the highway continued to the capital. The surface improving as the traffic worsened.…
Chinese Casinos – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 157 – 2nd December 2019
- ODO- 19631-19757km - Location- Svey Rieng, Cambodia - Weather- 28-39 clear and hot Today I crossed the border into Cambodia from Vietnam. There are several over land crossing points…
Ben Around the World Diary – Day 156 – 1st December 2019
- ODO- 19476-19631km - Location- The Forest south of the highlands, Vietnam - Weather- 21-36 clear I got groped today. The moped drivers of Vietnam have been relaxed on the…
The Dogs – Ben Around the World Diary – Day 154- 29th November 2019
- ODO- 19164-19318km - Location- Off the AH17, Vietnam - Weather- 20-23 rain Vietnam is not a dog lovers country. I thought that the idea of Vietnamese eating dogs was…