Diesel and running from Storms!

After meeting up with Deb and Al on our trusty iron horses we headed for the Lyons road out of Rathdowney to Kyogle,which is a well known bike ride road with fantastic scenery through a lush green valley. We stopped for breaky half way and cooked up some bacon and scramble eggs on my little travel stove and some coffee,it was starting to get hot and we shed the jackets. We then stopped again after a couple hours for coffee and the best lemon meringue pie in a really olde but quaint coffee/store shop.

We rode into Murwimbula with Deb and Al needing some fuel,there was only two pumps,diesel and petrol,well Deb pulled up to the diesel pump and started to fill up,being distracted by a huge crate of ripe mango's that were for sale,then Al filled his bike up as well with the diesel! We chose our mango's and stashed them on the bike and rode away,within a couple of k's Als bike stopped and Deb's bike started playing up like a hairy goat! Al thought it was bad fuel until we smelled it,DIESEL!

Well we had to drain both bikes,nearly 30 litres! and i rode off to get some fresh fuel in a can. We were planning to go home a different road through the mountains but a huge storm was gathering on the mountain so we high tailed it up the main highway to skirt the storm and we made it ,what an adventure!

Part three,2nd tour of duty Lao

Part Three Lao.

As coming into the plain of jars the road out was the oppisite up,up and up again until we reached the turn off to Vieng Vang,we made good time and stopped for lunch,fried sweet potato and coffee.Debbie said she had been asleep on the back of the bike the last hour!!!

Now it was all down hill again until Vieng Vang,once again we were bike heaven the scenery breath takeing. We arrived early afternoon and checked into the same hotel where we left our bags a week earlier,we had a shower and a nap then went for a sunset walk out to one of the caves then came back into town for a great dinner at a place that was not playing the family guy or friends!! We had dinner with Paul 'n' Kat who we met at Phonosaven. The girls again decieded there arses had enough and caught the bus back to Vietianne so after breakfast me and Al set off on the bikes we also had no bags as the girls would carry them.

Once again the scenery was fantastic and we traveled at a great trot, we beat the girls back into Veintianne and manged to secure two rooms in the same hotel as when we left,we took the bikes back to where we had hired them for tomoorrow we fly to Cambodia!