Friday, 10 October: Apologies for not updating the blog for a couple of days but we've been unable to find places where we can plug the laptop in until Ros found this place for breakfast this morning. The battery's had just enough power to check my mail in the evenings but not much more than that. We arrived in Thoen yesterday afternoon and, at some point yesterday, I clocked up my 900th km on the road. We are still some 85 km short of Lampang or another 3 days walk including today. The distances covered over the last 3 days have been shorter than I would have liked but this leg is more difficult than the others have been and we've had some quite hot weather to contend with as well.
We've stayed at a variety of places this week including the duty officer's bunk in a police box, camped out less than a hundred meters from a 24-hour manned police vehicle check point (not exactly condusive to a good night's sleep) and a couple more service stations and I think that's also played a part in slowing me down over the last few days. Not getting much sleep every night is going to take its toll eventually, I'm sure. We're going to make a decision about the Chiang Mai legs over the weekend and if we do cancel them, then we need to make arrangements with the folks up in Lamphun to get the kids to meet us at Northern Region Industrial Estate next Friday afternoon. We have made arrangements to call in at a couple of companies there who have been supportive of our efforts in the past and it would be nice to get the kids involved with that as well now that they are all on their mid-term holiday.
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