On The Road Part 2: Return to Bangkok.

"Easy Rider"

We found this.

This is a bus stop in front of a temple. See how the bus stop looks fancy like the temple. These are like free hotels. The bus stop, not the temple...

These are Thai cigarettes with very serious graphic warnings. In Thai. My favourite is the picture of a white dude with a big mustache holding a baby and blowing smoke. It looks like a bad family photo from the 1970's. Second would be the blackened lungs. Nasty!

We visited Hao Hin only to escape a rainstorm. We ended up spending too much on coffee and finding this location for to sleep the night. It is in a U-turn thing. Constant traffic, trains, and dogs.

We continued south. Our destination was Phuket. We stayed at this nice beach where Zeb cooked a fine meal and the locals avoided us. Or laughed at us. Both really.

"Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads!" -Doc Brown

This family showed us kindness beyond words.

This is Khao Lak Beach. We stayed here for two days on the way to Phuket. It was the first consistently nice weather we had had since leaving Bangkok and we needed a break. We caught the tail end of the monsoon season and riding 90kph in monsoon rains can be pretty brutal. We learned to avoid muddy puddles. Those conceal potholes that go all the way to the dirt.

A mosque on the road to Phuket.

We arrive in Phuket!! This is a picnic shelter in a park in Phuket on the edge of a mangrove swamp and low tideflats where people dig for things. There were mosquitos everywhere.
We decided this was the place to sleep for the night.
Zeb made a really amazing curry. Some older Thai ladies tried to give him advice but it was all in Thai. He did receive a thumbs up from one of them, and we both enjoyed the food. Apparently we had chosen poorly in sleeping here. It turned out to be an all night jump off. There were lots of cars and loud stereos and not much sleep. We left Phuket the next day and headed north. There were too many tourists in Phuket for our tastes.

As a shout out to our dear friend Chaya we decided to stay in Chaiya for the nite. We slept in a park on the beach again and it too happened to be the jump off. But this one had something we had never seen. Watch:

It is hard to see in the videos, but what is happening are scooter wheelies using two people (probably both drunk) to offset the weight of the scooter and pull the front wheel off the road. We also witnessed a three person wheelie that went for about 50 yards. Now I ask you: who would ride bitch on a wheelie?







Sleazy Z and Sleazy E signing out. Over and out...