Alas it was time to leave Cambodia and make my way to Northern Thailand for some touristy stuff like watching local breakdancers outside a Monastery: & kayak practice on a local whitewater river: I spent 3 days on the Mai Tang river with Siam River Adventures, run by a former sponsored snowboarder and staffed by locals who grew [...]
baby paddling…
Before jumping on the Mekong in Laos alone, I needed to practice. After we returned to Phnom Penh, Vathana would put me and the rolled up kayak on his moto and we would would cross the Japanese bridge each morning to some spot northeast of the city to put in. The first morning we came [...]
some pics so far…
THE BIG ONES ARE ONLY PARTIALLY SHOWN HERE..CLICK ON EACH ONE -BIG & SMALL - FOR BIG, BEAUTIFUL PICS…
Welcome….
Hello. Welcome to my blog. It is late October and I am in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, a quiet and beautiful town of 250,00 at the edge of beautiful mountains filled with monkeys, elephants, hill tribes, whitewater, rock climbing, 4×4 off-roading, and dozens of companies offering tourist treks through them all. There’s even paintball. The [...]
About the title….
Paddle&air came to me within a few minutes of thinking about a title. It has a nice flow to it: a poetic, undefined image. The photo at the top is a cropped photo of the Mekong: you can’t see the river yet. As the stories progress i may or may not [...]
Six weeks to go
Well folks…i arrive in Phnom Pehn on October 10th….The outline at this point is to then fly to Malaysia for some highlands trekking, river & ocean kayak practice, and beach book decompression…..
