Bangkok Panic Hour Jan 15, 2008

Flying stir fried morning glory!

Here he goes again

Well, we got the bikes fully loaded and on the road out of the hotel at 7:00 a.m. What a nightmare.... right in the middle of rush hour traffic. And this was first time on the loaded bike! I thought I was gonna die!!! But people were courteous, and gave us room. Then we got lost...horribly lost on the way to the train station! We ended up on a friggn freeway right in the rush lane!! Finally found a turnoff and got our bearings from a young girl and we ended up finding the train station...then the fun started.

I'd bought the tickets through a travel agent from Bangkok to Pitsanuloek and had told them we had 2 bikes and they said...mai pen lai...no problem! Well, there was...turns out that the rapid train we were on at 8:30 in the morning, didn't have a cargo car so we couldn't take the bikes on. So, we had to take the "ordinary" train which left at 9:30 but was an 8 hr train ride...it was bloody awful!!! Finally got to Pitsanuloek in the dark, around 6:30 pm and found a hotel to stay..or Colin found it! A first class..DUMP! So bad that no hot water, mosquitoes all over in the room, dirt dirt dirt....and well, a dribble of cold brown water out of the shower. But hell, it was only $6 a night!! So it's all part of the adventure, right!!!

So we took off for the night market, found a massage place and had dinner at this place notorious for their show they put on for the Pung Boon Pai Dang...which is the stir friend morning glory I love so much. They light it on fire, then throw the stuff in the air about 50 ft where a guy is standing on top of a truck and he catches it on the serving plate! Wild!!! See pic.........

So off to bed, only to wake up at 1 a.m. with lots of mosquito bites...finally ended one mosquitoes life span and slept happily.