(This is the Mekong in Kampong Cham at night)
Today, I felt nearly ok again, although my guts still didn’t work properly. In any case it was good to have a shorter tour today.
I had only two breaks for eating my diet – dry bread and banana.
Again, I hoped for tractors with higher packed trailers to get good slipstream and found some. I know that it is a bit risky, because you must be close to the vehicle to be sheltered from the wind and it is not clear if you can brake fast enough if the driver brakes. So, I normally try to see what is in front of the driver to get an idea what could happen. I saw a slower tractor before “us” and expected “my” driver to overtake. But he slowed down instead. And then I felt something under my front wheel and saw it was a bag and could drive over it without falling and wondered and felt lucky. The bag was big but light (that’s why it fell from that trailer), maybe it contained only other empty bags. And I had no chance to see it, because the both vehicles were too close to each other at that time.
As I said, it is risky. But it is very attractive! If the wind is strong like yesterday and today, you can sometimes only go 13-16km/h. And behind a vehicle,it was 22-32km/h…
I did it again. Two times behind the same tractor with durian or jackfruit loaded. The driver first was not much faster than me, but when he saw me in the mirror, he accelerated and I had to give up.
https://youtu.be/wTIVmKCWha0
nothing else what I didn’t tell before in some variant.