{"id":2696,"date":"2010-04-20T22:54:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T03:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2010-04-20T09:14:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T14:14:04","slug":"across-the-chao-phraya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/?p=2696","title":{"rendered":"Across the Chao Phraya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\">We woke up in Steve (may his beard grow ever longer&#8217;s) apartment and  commenced the usual maneuver, making our way up to Dane&#8217;s room, where we  found him plugging away on his Mono machine, pumping out crazy techno  science music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><iframe class=\"aw-video\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Travel video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YWz-O__BzUE\" allow=\"fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:13.2px\">We promptly began making coffee and plans for  the day. We would need to get food, and since most cooking was  outsourced in this city, that would mean venturing out to a place. Today  was also to be Karona&#8217;s last day in town. She was going back to Japan,  and as you can imagine the mood was somber. Scott and I had been for  some time without a wheel, and were badly, badly in need of one. That  was the plan for the day, but first we needed to attend Karona&#8217;s goodbye  luncheon. The luncheon took place at a local establishment called the  Goethe Institute. It was an interesting German enclave, sporting, among  other things, a very affordable cafeteria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:13.2px\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186726.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2802\" title=\"Goethe Institute\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186726.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186726.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186726-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">For less than $2.00 we piled our plates with rice, various curries, fried eggs, Thai  sausages, and fresh vegetables. The food was delightful. Saying goodbye  to Karona was not. She was such a kind and pleasant woman, and I  dare say all at the table were sad to see her go. We climbed on  the bikes with heavy hearts and vague directions from Dane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186731.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2803\" title=\"Rama IV\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186731.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186731-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">It was great to be wheeling again. We got  onto Rama IV and found ourselves filled with energy, soaring along at the  speed of traffic, whipping around the overpass, pulling a vast  uber-Rauschenburg and heading toward the port of Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186739.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2805\" title=\"Near the Port\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186739.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186739.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186739-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">We were looking for the  passenger dock, from which we would be chartering a small boat across  the river. We successfully made our way to the port, and wheeled up to  the guards at the gate. This didn&#8217;t seem right&#8230; certainly one would not  need to enter a restricted zone in order to take a small boat across the river?  Regardless, we rode up to the security checkpoint and engaged the  guards. They spoke no English, but seemed to recognize our butchering of  the Thai name for our next waypoint. They motioned to the interior  of the port and explained a fair bit to us that we unfortunately could  not comprehend. We figured then, it might be time to take out a certain  business card from a local nightclub on which Dane had scrawled the name  of the place we were looking for. When we handed them the business card,  the two guards barely even looked at the thing, before instantly  apologizing to us and inexplicably admitting us into the restricted zone!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186753.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2807\" title=\"Restricted Area\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186753.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186753.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186753-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">We  were quite sure that this was neither where we wanted nor where we  were technically allowed to be, but with the recent error in our favor,  it would have been quite the squandering of an opportunity not to wheel the interior of the port on Bangkok. So for the next hour, that  was what we did.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186757.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2808\" title=\"In the Port of Bangkok\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186757.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186757.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186757-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The workers seemed thrilled to have us around, smiling  and waving at us, as we meandered our way through the dockyards. On our way  out, the security guards gave us their best, waving and wishing us well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186749.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2806\" title=\"Terex Machines\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186749.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186749.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186749-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Not 15 meters later, a giant sign that we had somehow missed presented  itself, indicating the way to our passenger dock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186771.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2813\" title=\"Boats\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186771.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186771.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186771-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">We had no  problem finding a fellow who was willing to drive us  across the river in his long boat for about 60 cents. So we folded up the bikes and hopped  on board. The engine of the boat was connected to a great steel rod, on  the end of which was the propeller.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><iframe class=\"aw-video\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Travel video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FLmmkTnDAZw\" allow=\"fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Our helmsman piloted the thing deftly,  using the giant rod sometimes as a propeller and sometimes as an  oar, swinging us perfectly up and alongside the dock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2815\" title=\"Piloting\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186777.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186777.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186777-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">We grabbed the Speed TRs and jumped ship, passing a few baht over the water. On the other side, we found ourselves in a  thick jungle, where a smoothly paved road led us from small settlement  to small settlement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186789.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2816\" title=\"Wheeling Across the River\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186789.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186789.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186789-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">We just tore into it. Heading up one way,  cutting across and then back down another, soon we had wheeled out of the  jungle and into a small suburb of Bangkok, where we rode briefly looking  for an entrance to a vast system of elevated roads that fed onto a  large suspension bridge. The suspension bridge would be the  most triumphant way to re-enter Bangkok after the day&#8217;s wheel, but,  finally, after finding the entrance, it seemed too gnarly and fast to attempt without the help of a bike lane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186805.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2818\" title=\"Freeway System\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186805.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186805.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186805-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">So we pulled an  uber-licht and headed back, this time through the city, rather than  following the raised expressway, back into the jungle. We got back to  the main road just as a giant market was setting up. We could not  resist getting off the cycles and taking a tour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186826.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2820\" title=\"Market Hardware\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186826.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186826.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186826-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">We encountered a particularly enticing stand frying sweet colorful pancakes and wrapping flavorful bits together in a swirl.<\/p>\n<iframe class=\"aw-video\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Travel video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wSrr0PvK4FE\" allow=\"fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">We ordered a dozen and quickly decimated them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186837.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2823\" title=\"Sweet Shape\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186837.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186837.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186837-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">We came across a metal box of fresh fish, about to meet their fate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><iframe class=\"aw-video\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Travel video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/npX85sdbT_0\" allow=\"fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">As well as some fried fish, who had just recently met theirs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186840.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2824\" title=\"Fried Fish\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186840.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186840.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186840-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">We finally  loaded up on drinking water and climbed back on the cycles. We were  about to head back to the boat dock, when we noticed an inviting looking  jungle road that we had not yet taken, so we decided to follow it. And,  dear reader, we are sure glad that we did. What we discovered on the  other side was a large village, the entirety of which was connected not  by roads but by small raised concrete paths that wound their way over a  swampy jungle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186870.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2829\" title=\"Jungle Path\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186870.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186870.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186870-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">It was one of the richest wheels of my life, so  saturated was it with visual stimuli.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186860.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2828\" title=\"Jungle Village\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186860.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186860.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186860-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">I am going to dare let the photos  and videos speak for themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><iframe class=\"aw-video\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Travel video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Tw6GojFIDEM\" allow=\"fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186874.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2830\" title=\"Backyards\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186874.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186874.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186874-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Back on the longboat, making  our way toward the city, we felt like kings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186883.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2831\" title=\"Coming Home\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186883.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186883.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186883-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">So distracted by feeling like kings were we, that as Scott was climbing out of the boat,\u00a0 he sliced  his finger on the side of the dock. He was only mildly dripping blood,  so we climbed back on the cycles and made our way to the nearest 7-11.  Scott showed the woman his bleeding finger, and she  promptly became very uncomfortable beginning to insist that they did  not have any bandages or materials with which to aid his recovery. This  seemed strange, so we hid the finger, in hope that it might snap her out  of it, and began asking again. Still she indicated that there was  nothing she could do. Finally, we gave up on her and found the band-aids.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Outside the 7-11 we made fast friends with a woman running a locksmith&#8217;s kiosk as we were cleaning and bandaging Scott&#8217;s finger.  She later approached us with some tangerines and a big grin, offering  them to us as a gift.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186763.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2810\" title=\"Citrus Fruits\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186763.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186763.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186763-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">A fine type.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186768.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Woman Cutting Keys\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Back on the road, we made  short work of the trip back to Dane&#8217;s place, thinking of that <a title=\"Das Racist\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xmq9T0MZ_RQ\" rel=\"noopener\">Das  Racist<\/a> lyric &#8220;People on the street eating chicken and meat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">So we stopped at a street vendor outside his apartment building and examined the offerings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186908.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2836\" title=\"Scott at Street Stand\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186908.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186908.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186908-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The grilled beef looked especially appealing, so we ordered one up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186892.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2833\" title=\"Meats\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186892.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186892.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186892-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">We retired  to the vicinity of a certain street food stall that we knew to serve up amazing grilled meats, of which we procured many, with garnish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186889.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2832\" title=\"Leaves\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186889.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186889.jpg 700w, https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/P3186889-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We woke up in Steve (may his beard grow ever longer&#8217;s) apartment and commenced the usual maneuver, making our way up to Dane&#8217;s room, where we found him plugging away on his Mono machine, pumping out crazy techno science music. We promptly began making coffee and plans for the day. 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