Red Bicycle & Friends Donate Bikes to Students in Tsunami Devastated Area

13 June 2005

Leaving Samui on the ferry

Pickup and bikes board the ferry

Bikes, chickens, and coconuts become cargo

Debra studies map

The Red Bicycle team stops for fuel

Great views near Krabi

Finally arrive

These guys teach English to the kids

Bikes are quite common

Totally committed biker

Getting ready for school

Riding bike to market

Does all his shopping on bike

Two for one

Burmese worker rides to shipyard

Commuting

Bicycles are everywhere

Future downhill freak

More bikers

Navy guy rides to work while student goes to school

Stops to talk to Red Bicycle

Land of Smiles and Bikes

Head off to school for donation

The Tsunami wrecked the walls of the school

6 months later and not yet rebuilt

Unsafe to enter

Unloading the bikes

Kids help out with the donations

Balls and uniforms donated as well as bikes

Posing

Mike and Ae pose with the 'Milk Maid' bikes

Donation Ceremony

Debra helps kid with bike

Debra helps find uniforms for the big kids

The little kids eat first

After the ceremony new bikes are parked with the old bikes

We drive north to Kow Luk. Many tourists visiting here lost their lives

The police boat was washed a mile inland

The Army engineers have rebuilt many houses

Kow Luk now has Tsunami evacuation routes

New piers being built

Army engineers take a break

Huge fishing boat stranded

Before wreaking several homes this boat came to rest against this house

3 months earlier this field was empty

Future boat museum?

We met the colonel who is in charge of rebuilding this village. He went to school at the Citadel in the US

While we were talking to the colonel many villagers came by to visit