Melaka - Klang

What an epic ride.  The towns have well and truly began to spread themselves a little thinner on the ground and it was looking like we would have to bite the bullet for the 94ker.  We ended up (thanks to the Garmin (Jake) and Dave with his map) shave 10km off the ride to Port Douglas.  So by the time we got there 3.30 in the afternoon and settled on a hotel at 5pm we were pretty exhausted.  But very pleased with ourselves, we had eaten some delicious roadside food and discovered that the tea now all comes with sugar and milk and lots of it!!!  Surpringly good especially for two drinkers of 'no milk, no sugar'!  We encountered a few more hills which are still not a patch on anything in NZ - thank goodness, but still enough to make you think.  Sam is still King of the Mountain and Kim is Queen - although this is a hollow victory as there are no princesses on this tour and she still ends up last!  Michael is now also attempting to ride no handed and as such has further dramatically increased his mileage as the wobbles are just getting bigger.

We spent a night in Port Douglas, having finally found a hotel, after a hilarious Garmin induced ride through the badlands, where Dave forgot to unclip when he stopped, some kind locals escorted us out, Mickey's pannier flew off while the escort was in progress and Kim got the giggles through pure exhaustion.  Roll on tomorrow..

The next day was the hottest so far and over 82km we managed to slurp our way through an amazing 20litres of liquid and still only have 2 wees per day!!  Once again we hadn't planned on riding so far, but the town we were going to stop at was a dump and we decided to press on.  We also had a moment when we realised we wouldn't get to KL for our Thai visas until Friday and it is a 2 day processing time so we would be stuck here over the weekend.  Dave fixed that one for us though - there is an embassy at Penang!  Yay - I know where i'd rather wait out the two days!  Today we had a leisurely 34km to cycle into Klang.  It is a feeder town just outside of KL.  We are in the Station hotel - which is surprisingly just by the Railway Station, so we will get the train in to see the sights before continuing our journey on Friday. 

Once again many thanks for all your cool comments, I still can't quite manage to reply to them, but am thinking I need to subscribe to something else.  Hopefully it will work.

Lots of love
The Travelling Thomas'