THAILAND days 1-3

Published on November 23, 2010 in motorcycles and travel. 2 Comments Tags: , , .

I arrived at Chiang Mai, Thailand on Sunday 11/21 more or less on time in the early morning.  Over 30 hours of travel.   Slept in the airport in Bangkok prior to departure from there.  It’s pretty warm here, but not unbearable.

Made it for a festival.   Lots of fireworks and glowing balloons, to be shown later.

Sunday and Monday I wandered around trying to find the right bike.   The right bike for me for the trip planned would be something a little bigger than the common mopeds and scooters that you see everywhere here.   A 250 CC dirt or road bike would have been just right.   But then, if anything is worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.   As I will explain later when I have tons of time to type, I chose a Kawasaki 600 CC EN-6R or something like that.   It is made here in Thailand.   It is not quite a full on sport bike, but plenty close, with ABS and a luggage rack.   Suits me just fine.

I spent most of Monday looking at lots and wats of wats…   er, lots and lots of lots…… no uh, a crapload of Wats, which are religious temples. Also wandered all over the local historic area, met a couple of American Thai style boxers who were also bikers, got slightly drunk and just plain wore myself out.

Today (Tuesday) I picked up the bike from Mr Mechanic (who is a woman….Same Same), rode some awesome roads, met some elephants and saw two dead guys.   #1 dead guy was a local on a small motorcycle that had a bad meeting with a truck, # 2 dead guy was a tourist that decided to drown at a water fall near here.
Bad Ju Ju.   Maybe I will go out and get a Thai Foot massage to get rid of the bad demons.   Oh, wait, that would never work, I am ticklish as hell.
Tomorrow I will head out on what is called the Nan Loop, which will bring me out towards the Laos border and the Golden Triangle, which used to be Opium central (lotsa $, hence the Golden but is currently more of a tourist $ gold mine).   That trip is normally a 5 day trip, but I travel faster than the average tourist, but I also plan on taking side trips.   There is a two day loop from Chiang Mai that I may incorporate into the trip.   My current plan is to be in Phuket (Pronounced Puget, as in GET some POO for fertilizing the garden, you have a dirty mind)  by around the 5th of dec and go out on a dive boat for 4 days.
Anyone want more info of this area for motorcycling, they can go to GT-Rider.com
I am planning on getting unedited pics up on http://whereisbobl.com/pics/index.php?album=2010-11-thailand-all Soon.

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  • Lou`
    November 23, 2010 at 5:54 pm

    Bobby, hello from CT. We are really enjoying your trip. Hope to see you this winter. Lou and Sandy

  • Irene
    November 25, 2010 at 8:45 pm

    Hi Hon:
    Happy Thanksgiving. I had a great day with the family – you were missed and you missed a lot of awesome food. Am enjoying reading about your travels. (Hi Lou and Sandy – we plan to be in CT at Christmastime and will be in touch.)
    Enjoy your journey, Bob. Miss ya. Love, Me

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