Our Bumpy Way

Right, at the end of the last blog post, I flippantly indicated we would sort a visa extension and get our final vaccine dose. Well neither of those things happened as planned! Frustratingly, the clinic refused to give the vaccine as it hadn’t been exactly 90 days since the first Dengue dose. We tried to tell them that we would not be anywhere near a clinic or hospital that we could access a dose for over a month… It did not sway them and their rigid interpretation of the rules, telling me the 2 nd dose given at day 80 would be ‘invalid’. Well, I guess all my understanding of the immune system is also ‘invalid’. Sigh. What could we do? We will just have to have the 2 nd dose somewhere around day 120!

Well we made it to Bangkok in one piece, as did our bikes. Although, one piece doesn’t really indicate the wear and tear both our bodies and the bikes have accumulated. We decided to try and do something about both. We have taken Oxy and Wombat to a bike shop for a full clean and service. They have done about 4,200km since we bought them (the first 1,000km was in England), so it is probably a good time. We are replacing the chain and all the brake pads. Stopping when you want to will be a nice change! More than anything, we want to clean off any salt and grime from them. We probably won’t see the sea again for some months, so it makes sense to thoroughly wash them to avoid as much rust as possible.

We’ve changed our plans again... Just kidding!