World Trek: TNG

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After positive experiences with last year's pilot miniseries set in Florida, the budgetary division has given preliminary approval to commissioning a whole new season of exploratory journeys.

The year 2010 will be spent preparing the logistics for the first season, and in January 2011 filming is expected to begin in the city of Bangkok, Thailand. Barring unforeseen circumstances, the season is expected to run until March or April of that year and follow the protagonist's cycling journey through Thailand, and depending on the pace that will be established, may go further south to peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and/or the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

Required preparations checklist for future reference:

• Visas
  
• Vaccines
  
• Travel insurance
  
• Maps
  
• Phrasebooks
  
• Better camera
  
• New bicycle (poss. from Bangkok)
  
• Bicycle helmet
  
• Hydration backpack (Camelbak, Osprey et al)
  
• Bicycle toolkit
  
• Hub dynamos to generate electricity while cycling
  
• Design/build or obtain unit that converts 6VAC to 12VDC for laptop charging
  
• Research good anti-insect clothing (malaria defense et al)
  
• Research defense against larger beasts (feral dog packs reported in some areas)
  
• Research points of interest to visit for episodes
  
• Plan routes to meet up with episodes

Possible episodes:

• Golden Triangle, point where Thailand, Laos and Burma/Myanmar connect, opium history and museum
  
• Thailand's highest mountains, going from North to South
  
  • Loi Un in Chiang Rai
    
  • Doi Inthanon in Chiang Mai
    
  • Khao Mokochu in Nakhon Sawan (prob. too challenging to climb, maybe just photograph)
• Kayan people (neck elongation tradition) in Mae Hong Son
  
• Poss. other hill tribes in the north
  
• More to come...
  

Any advice, recommendations, or requests are entertained.