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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
I find it really amazing at how fast Asia changes. I remember only being able to buy gas in individual home-filled liter bottles stacked up on tables in front of small roadside shops. We'd pick through the bottles to find the ones with the least amount of sediment in the bottom. That was the norm in all the Kampangs. You could only find real gas stations in the bigger towns. And five years ago it took three days of rough travel to get from northern Thailand to Angkor and still another two days to get to Ho Chi Minh City. Today you can drive from Thailand to Ho Chi Minh City in less than two days, and do it on modern super highway the entire way!
How times do change...
Stitchawl
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It really is amazing how fast the Asian people can accomplish things with the most primitive tools.
The road from the Malaysian border to Sadao, the first major town in Thailand used to be almost impassable because of how bad the road was. Now the road is great, it's the bandits on the sides that make it scary
I have only drive in Thailand once and I'll pass on doing it again soon, I do plan on riding through Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and then China, if I can and then Korea, Japan and by boat back to Alaska and down through to my home city. It's a dream and I'm working on the logistics, the only problem so far seems to be China, everywhere else travel isn't restricted like it is in China.