India, Kolkata

View from the hotel

Garbage service 

Mechanics shop

An amazing example of an mustache

Kids in Cambodia

School kids playing soccer in the dried up rice fields with no shoes. Although the shaded area is technically out of bounds the ref allowed it. 

Handing out on the teeter totter, which is a board on a log.

A few strapping young lads.

I was biking past the river when I saw a bunch of kids jumping out of a tree in to the river. It was in the 90's (like everyday) so I decided to join them for a swim. The dress code, undies.

I like the dude in the front covering is junk because his underpants are see through when they get wet.

I think this game is called drown the white guy. It would be a hate crime at home. 

More little dude more than willing to strike a pose. 

Thailand

Thailand Tuk Tuk in Bangkok

They chop the front of a scooter off and weld on this buggy thing witch they steer with a tiller bar. I didn't notice when I took this pic that the owner is sleeping behind it. 

One of many amazing temples in Bangkok

Also side cars on 125cc bikes are the norm.

Old Ronald Mcdonald will do what ever it takes to sell burgers. 

Ken and I doing some down hill mountain biking. Crazy trails, I thought I was a goner. 

Making full moon party with french Canadians

Making full moon party with a Dutch nutter.

Singapore

The Marina Bay Sands Hotel It looks like a boat on the water form the right angle. Also behind it in the water is like a thousand boats.

More big money Singapore sights and buildings.

We were hanging out in little India and somebody sacked a bunch of wood and started what we thought was a fire in the middle of the street. We were latter informed that "this is not a fire, it is an offering". Just when you think you know what fire is.

 One of the girls let us borrow her hair for a little while. 

I got the Goth undercut look going on.

Road Trippin'

This is Neville and 83 Australian Ford Falcon wagon. With a load of around 2000 pounds of trailer and tipi poles and canvas. Plus three dudes there bags and food for a week or so. We proudly hung the Australian flag form front of the polls. It only covered the wind screen when we came to a complete stop, so we tried to avoid doing that. Also the day we were heading out we found the main neck of the trailer was snapped on three sides. Got that patched up and off we went. 

Almost half way we had a wheel bearing go out easy fix in the parking lot and off we went.

This it the spot we unloaded the poles and started to reposition all the gear  and make use of our new found storage room. 

Clang, did you say Clang? The trailer snapped when we put the almost empty ice chest back on it. For the record it broke eight inches ahead of where I had welded it up before. That will teach me to fix something. 

Some premium lashing of the tongue to the main trailer and it made it 20 miles on a dirt road back into town were we found a service station that would take it off our hands. 

Of course we had to salvage all the best bits off the trailer so we lashed two tires a mast and the light bar form the trailer to the roof. And plugged the lights in for extra safety. We figured the flag helped us blend in and look more like locals. Tipis delivered and the falcon didn't miss a beat. But at eight miles to the gallon loaded Im glad I wasn't paying the fuel bill. 

Mixers Australian Style

This was a Mazda powered mixer to mix clay for straw bail building.

It was a very precise process for belt tension. Jam wood under the belt until the wheel on the mixer spins. I found a perfect sized plastic guide to top the wood pile.

Delirium, to much creek water and direct sun exposer.

Don king of the castle. Builds Tipi's, straw bail structures, bends timbers and minds.

The End of NZ

Last night in New Zealand. I spent a few days in a kitchen washing dishes so I could blow it all on two 24 backs of beer and a bottle of Wild Turkey. I had some help drinking it. 

yankee's in Dunedin and Christchurch

Two from Indiana and one form Austin

I'd pay $60 

I like the fact that there honest

Christchurch 

The city is like a ghost town. 

Christmas dinner and Wild hogs

Christmas dinner with England, Scotland, and Switzerland

A view of the beach out the kitchen window

Just staring down the dusty trail on this wild hog, thinking how far can I go?

Turns out about four miles.