Feb 1-3: Far Away AF*

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Victoria -> Vancouver -> Bangkok -> Luang Prabang

Distance cycled:  5.49 km
Ave:  12.3 km/h
Max speed: 28.0 km/h

(As you might have guessed, we didn’t bike the whole way – we used a truck, a ferry, and two airplanes)
Spot the fake tongue!

I don’t know if I’d recommend working right up until the day before flying out, but everything seemed to come together…

Our bikes fit in the boxes. We accidentally caught an earlier than reserved ferry. We had time to catch up with friends in Vancouver. Our bikes made it through the security and weight checks. We slept through a great portion of the 16h flight (my window seat buddy climbed over me to pee 4 times, apparently!)

We arrived early for our connecting flight (yes, that’s a robot Zamboni!),
and our bikes arrived with us.
Everything went so smoothly!
And then the atm ate my bank card.
And my shifting was all messed up, so I couldn’t pedal effectively. The derailleur must have got bent in transit. I spent a bunch of the afternoon on the uni of YouTube… and concluded I needed a derailleur adjustor tool – compensating by changing the high and low limits helped but insufficiently. So that’s a project for tomorrow.
But for now, we made it, and found Jeannie! Jeannie’s flight path was much more stressful than ours and involved booking an alternate flight last minute. For future reference, only plan a layover in Vietnam if you’re flying with Vietnam Air (they require a visa even if you’re not leaving the airport!?!?!).
Goodnight from Laos (15h ahead of Victoria)

Alice (with edits from Flis, proofing by Jeannie)

*PS. We’ve been denoting our initials on shared expenses to indicate who they apply to at a glance, which so far as mostly just been A and F. Or af. 😆

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