Koh Chang: Motoscooter mayhem, a king cobra and barbecued barracuda
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006Sawat di krap!
So my trip has started off with a bang. An actual bang. The bang of my knee hitting pavement.
Yes indeed, yesterday I crashed on the rented motorbike I was riding around here on Koh Chang. It’s monsoon season and it’s been fairly well monsooning, but that’s not why I bailed. Nope, I fell only because I’d just gotten on the bike, didn’t know what I was doing, and on a downhill slope somehow hit the gas and hit the brake at the same time, which caused my tires to fishtail — and me to eat it. I messed up my left knee pretty good, it’s all bruised and scraped up and I got a bandage on it. Nothing broken or anything, thankfully — I just limp around like Johnny McTourist. Because you do see all these backpackers around who have bandages on knees and elbows and ankles, and it’s clear that the regulations for operating a motorized scooter in this country are pretty lax.
ismateo