Monsoon Ride

At last, the long waited east coast ride.
This year, I ended my cycle tour riding the east coast of Malaysia. Initially, the plan was to ride during the month of October, before the monsoon season. Some fellow riders insisted to ride during the school holiday. I have no problem with that, as long as they are willing to ride in the rain, I said. True enough, we had to endure five hours of drizzling and occasional drench along the LPT (Lebuhraya Pantai-Timur) to Jabor. The ride started around 3am. According to the hiway officials, we were not allowed to ride the LPT during the night time, but since our transportation had engine troubles, they had to allow us to ride the LPT. We reached Jabor interchanged at 11pm, so had lunch.
Everybody was so hungry that we took quite a heavy meal of nasi campur.

With heavy stomach, we had to ride slow. Still had another 20km to Pantai Cherating. That's where decided to stay for the night. We spent the night at Little Bali. I shared the challet with my friend, Billie. All of us took three chalet and shared. As for today, the ride was a bit memorable, had to ride in the rain for five hours without proper preparation. Another valuable lesson learned, ALWAYS EXPECT THE WORST. For me, I rather ride in the rain, rather in the hot sun. We only had one bottle of mineral water each, for 90km ride, imagine that. And as for Billie the rain has caused him to cut his ride short. The stitches to his old injury has re-open. He decided to return to Kuala Lumpur by bus the next day.  

Ready for 2nd day ride. well, except Billie, had to return to KL

The second day ride was fun, as it was clear day, not much of sun. Billie is taking the bus to KL at 1130hrs. After a brief goodbye, we continued the ride to Kuala Terengganu. It was friday, so we had to stop during the Friday prayers at Pantai Kemasik. Then continue the journey. Everybody was enjoying the ride so we travel really slow, too slow in fact we did not reached Kuala Terengganu on the second day. Had to stayed at a chalet just 30km away from Kuala Terengannu.

Yup that's how happy we were, thus the slow ride.