The invitations had been coming for some time. Accompanied by photographs like these.
Photograph courtesy of PL 
Photograph courtesy of PL
As soon as the MCO ban on interstate travel was lifted we started planning a ride to Port Dickson. Paul provided additional encouragement.
Within a week everything was confirmed. The route was from where I live to Regency Resort Tanjung Tuan.
Ready to roll at 6:45 am.
Our first stop was at the Seri Kembangan R&R on the Maju Expressway.
Stop two was in Dengkil for breakfast. 44km / 27mi and 2 hours into our ride.
On the road again toward Bandar Serenia and Kota Warisan.
We made the right turn onto Jalan Besar Salak at 10:00 am. The stretch from Bandar Baru Enstek to Sepang was into a strong headwind. We were glad for a break at the Shell station.
Kieren and Terry had ridden faster than the rest of us and they made the left turn onto Federal Route 5 toward Lukut. Fortunately, they stopped at the border sign and called me to check where we were.
It is a good thing Terry called because we had decided to ride in the opposite direction to Sungai Pelek to take the ferry across the Sungai Sepang.
We got to the ferry to discover that it had not started running again. Nothing to do but smile for the camera and head back to Sepang.
Lay and I were leading the group 2km from Regency Resort. I heard AiLei shout “Faster. Faster.”
When Lay and I pulled into the Regency Resort gate the rest were nowhere to be seen. AiLei had shouted “Puncture. Puncture.”
Everyone got to Regency Resort eventually.
Once we were all settled rehydration was essential.
Followed by some paddling.
And conversation with our hosts. Paul and Simon were superb hosts. Thank you from all of us.
Simon cooked steaks for some of us for dinner. The others went out to tar pau fried rice, fried noodles and seafood.
Lots of food, beer and wine = let’s just ride to Seremban tomorrow and take the train back to KL.
So at 7:25 am we were on the road to Seremban.
It took about 90 minutes to get to the Seremban KTM station. Faster than I had expected, and fast enough for us to catch the 9:06 am train instead of the 10:02 am departure that we had planned for.
At 10:45 am we were at Bank Negara KTM station.
At 11:00 am we were at Gavel.
I ate like I had ridden all the way from PD.
Photograph courtesy of ML 
Photograph courtesy of KO
Paul can we come again?
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