Song of the Koel - CycleBlaze

Song of the Koel

Taking the little roads and chasing khao soi in Thailand and beyond.

By Andrea Brown & Bruce Lellman
1,218 miles (1,960 km) over 93 days since Oct. 27, 2025

The Mad Scramble, aka Prologue

Yay Yo heart 44
La-La-La heart 76
Here's the Song You Wanted to Hear heart 82
The Lost Day heart 79
Hi! I’m Snowman heart 154
All in 1 heart 120
Portals and Pain heart 157
The Sacrilegious Escalator heart 69
My Sixth Cycle heart 89
Last Day in Chiang Mai heart 74

Wheels Down

Entering the Traffic Bloodstream heart 180
Loy Krathong heart 127
We’ve Been Here Before heart 55
Maybe We’ll Eat There Someday heart 45
A Good Thing to do on a Rainy Day heart 35
Why Is It So heart 160
Gallery of a couple of Chiang Mai Temples heart 118
Wat Phra That Doi Suthep heart 116
How Marvelous Life Is heart 109
The Luxury of Time heart 118
Molten Plastic better than Metal - Khao Soi better than Noodle Soup heart 49
Rat or Bat? heart 104
Milk Train Carnival Ride heart 175
Ba-ba Bo-bo heart 83
One....Two....Three heart 108
A Fully Lucky Day heart 148
What a Colorful Day heart 79
Zig Zagging through Tiny Villages heart 103
Don’t Tell Anybody About Phrae heart 70
In Praise of Paint heart 112
Nan, Thailand heart 125
Wat Phumin heart 35
Mai Dai heart 91
Waving in the Breeze heart 100
Naga Stairs to Nowhere heart 83
Respect heart 86
Do We Have a Plan? heart 80

Laos Interlude

A Bottle of You-Know-What heart 95
The Magic of the Slow Boat heart 179
Heartbreak and Annoyance heart 222
Performance Artist or Quintessential Buddhist Monk heart 214
Shoring Things Up heart 170
Wat Wisunarat heart 120
Flight of the Minivans heart 101
Wat Xiang Thong heart 74
Asphalt? Who Needs Asphalt? heart 64
Liminal Spaces heart 101
Change Direction Ahead heart 120

The Left Side is the Right Side

Damp Dankness heart 40
Americanos with Milk heart 54
The First Koel heart 113
It's Flower are Happy Once Again heart 89
You Can’t Always Predict heart 50
A Serious Incident on the Mekong Slow Boat heart 5
Rice Planting heart 41
Here One Minute - Gone the Next heart 121
Sudden Stops for Mesmerizing Things heart 135
There’s Always Food in Thailand heart 60
Christmas Break heart 193
Christmas Day heart 64
The Sound of the Speed of Crunch heart 75
All the Elements of Suck heart 139
Hup Pa Tat heart 138
A Giant Tree heart 48
Roads of Wonder heart 76
Has Our Trip Just Begun or Is It Half Over? heart 48
New Year's Day heart 93
Clarity heart 91
Always Near, Though Far Away heart 35
Kanchanaburi Days heart 80
The Queen of Sweat heart 46
Inching Closer to the Megalopolis heart 35
Waitin’ on a Train heart 76
Benjakitti Park - Bangkok heart 66
The Green Lung of Bangkok heart 60
Miniature World heart 64
A Two Ferry - Two Train Day heart 71
Some Random Photos from Bangkok heart 93
No Need to Rush heart 83
Entering the East Coast Beach Zone heart 144
River of Lost Souls heart 86
Sun is Shining, The Weather is Sweet heart 28
Koel Update heart 39
Wharfing It heart 30
Pedal and Coast heart 123
To Prachuap Kiri Khan - an Old Friend heart 39
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