Welcome to news from the Krabi coffee shop with your host, Don McLean from the

adventures of Bradley and Don and my talk 107-1, Go Rage Logics Newsman, Mr. FYI,

John Height, and the Krabiest guy in the coffee shop, Kenny Olsen.

I don't think we've updated people on the whereabouts of Bridget McCutchen, our

buddy from Wisconsin, who's riding her motorbike around the world. So I looked her

up on the Facebook and came up with a bunch of stuff, Don, you have something from

September 27th. Yes, Pakistan. It's been awful and awesome. After crossing the

Taftan border from Iran into Pakistan, I was required to get a sometimes very

slow escort from a security group in Baylo, Chistan, Balachistan called the

levies. They accompany all tourists who crossed the Taftan border. Unfortunately,

I got a headcoat cold along the way that gave me so much congestion. I couldn't

hear out of my left ear, weird. After riding with an escort for over 1500

kilometers, I was released by the levies outside of Lahore, and I headed straight

for Islamabad, where I met up with adventure hawks. That is an at a person

that she's tagging there, who have been helping me out quite a bit with my

recent route through the Middle East. I was inspired by all the intricately

painted trucks that I saw in the south of Pakistan, and decided that I wanted to

have part of my bike painted as well. So I said about figuring out how to get

that done. In the meantime, I met up with the cousin of a Swedish friend I met in

Norway. Ash's cousin was super lovely to me and helped me to pick out a

beautiful traditional shirt. It was also just very nice to hang out with another

young woman. She enlisted the help of her brother and his friend who helped me

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