Rolling, rolling, rolling
Life on the road has been very good so far, yes the usual quizzical pains which appear to come out of nowhere and the dogs are taking a special interest at me. I think once I get into Cambodia I’ll purchase some hand grenades for the special occasions when a pack of dogs is on your tail, just kidding, I’ll go for the good old AK-47.
I rode about 800km and I’m about 200km south of Bangkok in Hua Hin, a bit touristy but when you had one proper conversation in English within the last 9 days, it call for a bit of talking. Quite a few old man with young Thai ladies in here, hmmm, I think true love really exists in Thailand, yeah right. You tend to overlook those things in here and nobody really talks about it. I have nice room, ok I splurged after last night in a lovely hotel filled with spiders and a nice roach. Mosquito net comes in hand in these situations. But some f**ker bit me four times on the knee, it appears to be going away slowly. Today’s room is expensive at about $13cnd a night, haha, the usual ‘Thai décor’ which is found in most dingy hotels is replaced with white tiles at this occasion.
Oh, the Thai people, met a 58 year old woman who advised me to go to a touristy place, find a Thai wife, move here and open up a business. She insisted that I go to Pattaya as the women there are cheaper. Go figure, she was quite serious about the whole ordeal. Then you have the monks, it’s actually quite cool when your ride at 6 am, this is when the monks go out to collect food from people. They give me the best ‘What the f**k’ looks, I guess that’s when they get on their cell phones to call their fellow monks to say ‘Hey, I just saw a crazy farang (foreigner) on a f**ken bicycle!!!!’’.
Two days ago I went the wrong way out of town and did an extra 30km, bad day, a lot of hills and yes, the last time a mentioned rain, the next day it rain while on the bike for a while. It never fails. I’m glad to be heading up north, as the traffic before bkk is getting a bit heavy.
Went to an amazing monkey temple yesterday and hired a ‘body guard’ for 60 cents, 10 year old kid trying to make some money. He was quite funny, chasing monkeys away and being quite serious about his job, I taught him some English and he taught me some Thai. Quite a few kids around 8-10 years are working here, mostly helping their parents at restaurants, women are working as construction workers, I guess anybody who has to hands is doing anything possible to survive.
Ok, enough writing, gotta eat.
Cheers.
I rode about 800km and I’m about 200km south of Bangkok in Hua Hin, a bit touristy but when you had one proper conversation in English within the last 9 days, it call for a bit of talking. Quite a few old man with young Thai ladies in here, hmmm, I think true love really exists in Thailand, yeah right. You tend to overlook those things in here and nobody really talks about it. I have nice room, ok I splurged after last night in a lovely hotel filled with spiders and a nice roach. Mosquito net comes in hand in these situations. But some f**ker bit me four times on the knee, it appears to be going away slowly. Today’s room is expensive at about $13cnd a night, haha, the usual ‘Thai décor’ which is found in most dingy hotels is replaced with white tiles at this occasion.
Oh, the Thai people, met a 58 year old woman who advised me to go to a touristy place, find a Thai wife, move here and open up a business. She insisted that I go to Pattaya as the women there are cheaper. Go figure, she was quite serious about the whole ordeal. Then you have the monks, it’s actually quite cool when your ride at 6 am, this is when the monks go out to collect food from people. They give me the best ‘What the f**k’ looks, I guess that’s when they get on their cell phones to call their fellow monks to say ‘Hey, I just saw a crazy farang (foreigner) on a f**ken bicycle!!!!’’.
Two days ago I went the wrong way out of town and did an extra 30km, bad day, a lot of hills and yes, the last time a mentioned rain, the next day it rain while on the bike for a while. It never fails. I’m glad to be heading up north, as the traffic before bkk is getting a bit heavy.
Went to an amazing monkey temple yesterday and hired a ‘body guard’ for 60 cents, 10 year old kid trying to make some money. He was quite funny, chasing monkeys away and being quite serious about his job, I taught him some English and he taught me some Thai. Quite a few kids around 8-10 years are working here, mostly helping their parents at restaurants, women are working as construction workers, I guess anybody who has to hands is doing anything possible to survive.
Ok, enough writing, gotta eat.
Cheers.
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