April 20, 2009
I'm not trying to brag when I say Surly has fans all over the world. We're not just talking about happy Surly riders either, but hungry folks looking for Surly bits and pieces: Mr B from Irkutsk, Russia desperately seeking a Pugsley; a man in Zagreb, Croatia looking to get an LHT; Andrea lamenting the inability to find a complete Big Dummy in Italy. These aren't the sorts of things one can make up. Similar emails roll in regularly and it's astounding really. I guess this fancy Interweb has woven our global fabric a bit tighter, in some ways at least.
A short while ago we got an email from Parn in Bangkok looking for some LHTs. He found a source and has been going on his merry way I suppose. Well, I just got an update from him last week. Being as I live in a leaden cave that blocks the transmission of most news media I had to research the back story. I've hyperlinked for your edification:
Dear my friends around the world,
Just send some photos that you may have been never see on the news.
After they move the burned buses out of the road at noon. We back to celebrate our new year festival on the same road in the evening.
That's Thai people !!
See you someday
Parn
Parn attached 15 photos composed of such bizarre juxtaposition I thought perhaps I hadn't fully slept off the remnants of the weekend. I did a quick inventory to set my mind at ease:
Pulse? Check.
Day of Week? Monday, check.
Made it to work? Check.
Leaking fluids? Negative, check.
Fully clothed? Check.
I think it's gonna be a long, interesting week. Particularly since a butcher's handful of us are headed to Fruita for the Fat Tire Fest where will drink in the sweet nectar of world-class singletrack. More on that later.
Happy Monday, Surly Folk ... wherever you are.
