There were a fair number of lessons learned in our Christmas cycle tour around Tasmania , and as our Easter trip to Thailand drew nearer, I became increasingly stressed about the details.
Some elements fell into place more easily than others. Successful warrantee of a dead Di2 battery saw us with a spare, and I decided to go full-contingency-plan by not only replacing one of our 3-port external junction units with a 5-port one, but also acquiring another seatpost clamp. Now, if a battery shits itself, we should be able to run an external battery as a stop-gap measure. Of course, being so well prepared will now probably mean that we'll never have issues again, and if that's the case, I'll
We booked flights back in September, with dates influenced largely by fares and how long we figured we could be away from work. Just before we met, Sarah had spent six months working for UNESCO in Bangkok, and we'd been invited to stay with one of her ex-colleagues in Bangkok. Sarah was keen to take me to Angkor Wat, but upon discovering how pan flat the terrain was in between, I'd pushed for a foray into the hills in the north of Thailand.