English Summary
This retrospective video revisits Paul and Natt Hamon's honeymoon: rather than a conventional trip, they mapped a 9,000km route through all 77 provinces of Thailand on a single imported German tandem recumbent, covering it in 159 days. Paul took the rear seat, steering and driving the pace; Natt rode reclined up front, hands free to rest, photograph the trip, or check her phone — a setup that also meant neither of them could ever ride ahead for a bit of space.
The video runs through the physical grind — blistering heat, hand-washing the same cycling kit every night, a blown tyre stranding them until a passing local threw the tandem in the back of a pickup — and the emotional arc of the trip: an easy "honeymoon phase" for the first three months, then mounting friction as fatigue and the total lack of personal space caught up with them, forcing them to learn to let go of small arguments and compromise. Paul lost close to 15kg over the journey.
They finished in Bangkok on day 159 with a travel journal stamped at provincial offices along the way, which secured their place in the Thailand Book of Records. The video frames the trip's real achievement less as the distance covered and more as the crash course in communication it forced on a newly married couple.