By Any Means

Friday 7th August 2009
Day 41

The different modes of transport we have encountered over the last 40 days has been quite staggering but mainly down to the reliance different countries place on their different modes of transport. So far it goes - plane, bus, coach, train, car, scooter, campervan, truck, jeep, taxi, minivan, longboat, fisherman's boat, opelet and ute.

We paid Carlos our dues....and our cash this morning and hitched a lift in the back of a ute to Padang. We then switched modes of transport into a suped up opelet complete with spoiler, lowered suspension and go faster stripes which took us north of Padang. A small truck then took us the final 5km over dirt road to our accomodation by the beach.

Once here we quite frankly had the laziest day on record. We both felt a little knocked sidewards and knew the next couple of days in KL would be full on.