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Thailand/Narathiwat Round the world trip 2007
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We have been slowly working our way up the Sea of Thailand coast as per usual: hot and sunny temps in the nineties; we pray for clouds and overcast to cool our parched and poached bones. Eating at road side stands is always a special treat since we usually really don’t know what will arrive at the table. Almost without exception the food is spicy and delicious, a wonderful mixture of flavors and colors. The highway is rather flat with a good shoulder, lots of smiles and waves. The cities and large towns are very lively but easy to ride through, The most distracting things on the way are the Buddhist temples. We find ourselves pulled off the pavement into these brightly decorated temples in park-like setting; monks in saffron robes tending the grounds and teaching the young monks (most young men will spend three months or more in training). In the mornings the monks go out and get their day’s food donations and return to the temple grounds.
Judee has been struggling with her cold, now in her chest with much coughing. We are taking it easy: ride for a couple of days, rest one then ride two; cities to the beach, back to town; also alternating eating off the street then into a KFC the next evening.
After several days of coastal Thailand and traditional Thai accommodations, a ferry whisks us to the resort island of Samui. This island is large – has a paved road with a 50km perimeter. So we have Bici with us. Accommodations are 1st rate, aimed at foreign trade and expensive in comparison to mainland Thailand. Art calls it Gucci Island.
August 10 Thailand/Samui Weltreise 2007 >
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July 29 Thailand/Songkhla Weltreise 2007
We have been slowly working our way up the Sea of Thailand coast as per usual: hot and sunny temps in the nineties; we pray for clouds and overcast to cool our parched and poached bones. Eating at road side stands is always a special treat since we usually really don’t know what will arrive at the table. Almost without exception the food is spicy and delicious, a wonderful mixture of flavors and colors. The highway is rather flat with a good shoulder, lots of smiles and waves. The cities and large towns are very lively but easy to ride through, The most distracting things on the way are the Buddhist temples. We find ourselves pulled off the pavement into these brightly decorated temples in park-like setting; monks in saffron robes tending the grounds and teaching the young monks (most young men will spend three months or more in training). In the mornings the monks go out and get their day’s food donations and return to the temple grounds.
Judee has been struggling with her cold, now in her chest with much coughing. We are taking it easy: ride for a couple of days, rest one then ride two; cities to the beach, back to town; also alternating eating off the street then into a KFC the next evening.
After several days of coastal Thailand and traditional Thai accommodations, a ferry whisks us to the resort island of Samui. This island is large – has a paved road with a 50km perimeter. So we have Bici with us. Accommodations are 1st rate, aimed at foreign trade and expensive in comparison to mainland Thailand. Art calls it Gucci Island.
