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May 10, 2005
Wan and Mou finish riding bicycle in Africa. We acrossed the Mediterranean Sea & Atlantic Ocean by ferry from Tanger, Morocco to Tarifa, Spain. We are now riding in Spain and continuing more than ten countries in Europe.
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March 6, 2005
Mr. Siriwat Suthigasame, The Ambassador to The Royal
Thai Embassy in Rabat, Morocco give Wan and Mou a warm welcome to
Morocco and a warm stay in his residence while Wan and Mou is taking a
tour different cities around Morocco. Wan and Mou will be biking from Rabat
to Tangier and then crossing by ferry to Spain.
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February 15, 2005
Minister Chirachai Punkrasin
has given Wan and Mou a reception at The Royal Thai Embassy in Washington
D.C. Thai Press, Thai Association and
Foreign
Press were invited. We got a warm welcome and donation.
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January-February 2005
Washington Sports
Clubs (WSC) is given a great support to Wan and Mou to
use Fitness Equipment at the Sports Clubs in order to stay in good shape
to continue the next leg in Africa and Europe soon. Thank you very much
for your kind support.
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Dec 31, 2004
Wan and Mou accomplish riding
across USA from Sacramento, California to Yorktown, Virginia. Gene Talbott
help us to complete the route for
the
last 3 days. Thank you very much to everyone for your support and helping
us to the success and let us to move on the next step.
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October 23, 2004
Dr. Kosit and Dr. Saisawat Prieb has given us a warm
stay in his home in Illinois during our trip break in Missouri and Illinois.
We are
greatly appreciated and thank you for your kind support.

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October 3-4, 2004
Mr. Natee Chaisintop, Probike Shop in Bangkok www.probike.co.th had
contacted TREK Bicycle to give us a factory tour at Waterloo, Wisconsin.
We bring our bicycles to change the parts and check up. Thank you very
much to Mr. Natee for your support of all the expenses. Our bikes are
now in good shape for the rest of the journey and half of the world.

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September 20, 2004
Wan and Mou is the first couple who get married in the McDonalds Restaurant
in Bangkok, Thailand. We got a great support from Mr. Dej Bulsuk for
our wedding party. We have been visiting McDonalds in different countries
along our journey. Today, we visit McDonalds Headquater in Oakbrook,
Illinois and visit Hamburger University for 2 days. We learn and get
to know the history of McDonalds restaurant having more than 30,000 restaurants
all over the world.
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September
17, 2004
Wan and Mou pay respect to the Consul General Chet Dherapattana at The
Royal Thai Consulate-General in Chicago, Illinois
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September 17, 2004
We arrive Chicago. Mrs. Pranee Tinimit Ishii and Mr. Yukuo Ishii give
us a great help to do things and give us a wonderful tour around Chicago.
We stay with the family before getting back on the road again.

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July 1, 2004
Early in the morning, Wan and Mou start bicycling across USA at Pony Express,
Old Sacramento. Our friends wish us the successful journey and give us
moral support.
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June 29, 2004
Wan and Mou receive a certificate from City of Sacramento on our arrival
to Sacramento, California
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May 5, 2004
Wan and Mou arrive Sacramento, California. Dr.
Naomi Sato gives us a warm stay in her home while we are planning to
bicycle across USA from
California
to Virginia.
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April 30, 2004
We receive Certificate of Welcome from City of Los Angeles. Thank you
very much for the recognition to Eric Garcetti, Councilmember 13th
District
and
Mrs. Chanchanit Martorell, Thai CDC for your kind support.
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April 24-26, 2547
We have a good opportunity to visit Grand Canyon National Park, one of
the
seven world wonders in Arizona State. On the way back, we stay at Las
Vegas
(beautiful nightlife and casino) in Nevada State. We got the support
from Mr.Niphun Rojanasopondist. Thank you
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April 22, 2004
Wan and Mou pay a respect to Deputy Consul General, Mrs. Nantana Sivakua
and Director Sethapon Chindanon, Tourism Authority of Thailand. We
inform
them of our journey and say goodbye to start our cycling trip in USA.
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April 1, 2004
With a great of honor to get a support from Mr. Niphun Rojanasopondist,
he is wellknown by the name of Tung Rama. He owns a shipping business
(ship
things to Thailand), Rama International Inc. www.ramashipping.com and sells
phone cards Rama, Krungthep, Mekong www.ramatel.com calling to Thailand
with good rate. Khun Tung invite us to stay in his home with the family in Los
Angeles and give us a phone card to call our parents & cousins in Thailand.
He will sponsor us while we are travelling in USA. He has bought us a
video camera
to record our journey so we could send our news to Thailand from now on. He
had given us the opportunity to visit places before we start our biking
trip in
USA. Our journey cycling in USA will be continue...
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March 2004
The Ambassador of the Royal Thai Embassy, H.E. Plernpit Potiganond has
welcome both of us in her residence in Mexico City. We take a long
rest
and
prepare ourselves to be ready to enter biking in U.S.A. after the winter
time is
getting over by end of this month. With a great honor to both of us.
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February 14, 2004
We have finished our bike route in Guatemala. While we were staying in
Guatemala city, the Honorary Consul Louis Thomas Leonowens and his
wife
Mrs.
Sylvia was giving us a great support and let us stay at their house.
Louis and
Sylvia has given us love, like we were their children. Today, we are
leaving and
pay our respect to say good-bye to continue our journey.
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January 13, 2004
Wan and Mou are now travelling in north of Nicaragua and going to cross
the
border to Honduras. We plan to travel 2 days in Honduras, then continue
to El
Salvador (2 weeks) and next to Guatemala. We will be arriving Mexico
by
beginning of February 2004.
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November 19, 2003
Wan and Mou arrived Panama city on Nov 14, 2003 at night. We were trying
to
find a place to stay and surprised to meet the Consulate Honorary of Thailand,
Mr. Carlos A. De Janon. We feel a great honor of meeting him. He gave
us
very
good advice about Panama. We had a photo taken with him at the office.
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November 10, 2003
We have moved from Cali to the capital city of Bogota in Colombia and stay
with
Cuqui and Cesar Ardila Family. The weather is quite cold here all year.
Bogota
is the third highest capital city in the world. Ardila Family is lovely
family. They
take us to visit many places around Colombia and let us learn the beautiful
lives
of Colombians. We are stay in a warm family and getting ready to continue
our
trip to Panama soon. With a great friendship of Thai-Colombians...
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September 1, 2003
Wan
and Mou are now staying with very nice family. Father: William Rosero,
Mother: Maria Elena Gamboa and very pretty daughter (our sister) Viviana
Rosero Gamboa. Rosero family & cousin pick up us at Cali Airport, Colombia.
We load up our bicycles and gear on the pick up. The airport is about
15km to the city. We see green sugar cane along the road in a very big
area. Cali is very famous for sugar cane and beautiful girls. We are now
become the member of Rosero family...sending the update from Cali, Colombia.
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September 1, 2003
 
 
Goodbye to Ecuador... After what happened to us about the robbery in Riobamba,
we need to stay in Quito, a capital of Ecuador to get everything organize.
We both get a great support from Khun Martin Maier and Khun Saiklang Horbut
Maier for hosting us and gave us a warm stay. There are only 2 Thai families
in Quito. The other family is Khun Parichart and Khun Andy Crossley. These
2 families gave us a very warm heart during our stay in Quito. We thank
you very much to the families for a beautiful lunch at nice restaurant
seeing beautiful city view of Quito. We had a good memory. On Sep 1, 2003
we flew with TAME Airline at 11.00am from Quito to Cali. We had a stop
at Tulcan, north of Ecuador. We had a pleasant and safe trip to Cali.
We are now ready to discover and explore Colombia. Thanks, P.Wan and P.Mou
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Aug 26, 2003
We thank you very much to The Royal Thai Consulate General, Honorary Consul
Sr. Luis A. Garcia Jara, Vice Consul Maria Fernanda de Vela and family
for your great support during our stay in Quito, Ecuador. We both are
greatly appreciate. Thanks for helping us to get things ready to continue
our trip in the beginning of September.
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July 29, 2003
Wan and Mou been robbed in Riobamba, Ecuador -> Details
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June 26, 2003
Wan and Mou crossed the border entering to Ecuador. We have passed the
desert in Peru. We are now in the new atmosphere seeing rain forest and
cycling on the highland to Quito at the equator line.

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