Steve Canyon
Senior Member
- Joined
- Jan 15, 2011
- Bikes
- SMT990
Day 2 The Hot springs to Nan and back to Phayao
Got up at 6am and started packing ready for the off, this was the view of the day ahead..
looked a bit like how yesterday started.. Oh dear..
I set of and thing's got bleaker as I headed for the GT, no rain but cold and damp, never mind there was lot's to look at on route, then I got my first taste of unfinished Thai Roads......
This was slippery, but it was fun..... love the road marking's, after a short shower this soon became really hairy, but fun...I was laughing all the way down this road, it was a real buzz trying to keep upright....
I went back into town and had some food..
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I looked at the map,the rain was getting harder, time to head South East toward Nan trying to avoid the major roads, I started to see a lot of accidents on straight roads?? 3 in total all trucks in ditches , the 4th was an artic jack knifed at a set of lights, he took loads of cars with him, my assumption was go steady when wet in Thailand. It appeared the weather was following me..
it was bleak and I was soaked through..
when I got to Pong I knew there was no way I would make Nan so I headed back to Phayao, I was shivering, then I saw the sun..
Then I got a sign from god..
could thing's be starting to turn for me...
Forever the optimist, I took it as a good omen..
It was dark by the time I saw a Thai hotel and decided this would do, I asked if they had any rooms in my best Thai, he Replied 150....but would do deal....I got 1 room for 500bt, air con, hot shower, another place I would not recommend but I was happy to be in the dry, I found a little restaurant and had a meal, the menu was all in Thai so I left there pretty hungry, I got a load of snacks from the 7-11 and retreated to the hotel, it looked like a laundrette with all my gear drying off . Phoned the wife and had a laugh about day, I was still doing what I wanted to do.....ride the bike..I thought that my luck was about to change....and it would..
Got up at 6am and started packing ready for the off, this was the view of the day ahead..
looked a bit like how yesterday started.. Oh dear..
I set of and thing's got bleaker as I headed for the GT, no rain but cold and damp, never mind there was lot's to look at on route, then I got my first taste of unfinished Thai Roads......
This was slippery, but it was fun..... love the road marking's, after a short shower this soon became really hairy, but fun...I was laughing all the way down this road, it was a real buzz trying to keep upright....
I went back into town and had some food..
I looked at the map,the rain was getting harder, time to head South East toward Nan trying to avoid the major roads, I started to see a lot of accidents on straight roads?? 3 in total all trucks in ditches , the 4th was an artic jack knifed at a set of lights, he took loads of cars with him, my assumption was go steady when wet in Thailand. It appeared the weather was following me..
it was bleak and I was soaked through..
when I got to Pong I knew there was no way I would make Nan so I headed back to Phayao, I was shivering, then I saw the sun..
Then I got a sign from god..
could thing's be starting to turn for me...
Forever the optimist, I took it as a good omen..
It was dark by the time I saw a Thai hotel and decided this would do, I asked if they had any rooms in my best Thai, he Replied 150....but would do deal....I got 1 room for 500bt, air con, hot shower, another place I would not recommend but I was happy to be in the dry, I found a little restaurant and had a meal, the menu was all in Thai so I left there pretty hungry, I got a load of snacks from the 7-11 and retreated to the hotel, it looked like a laundrette with all my gear drying off . Phoned the wife and had a laugh about day, I was still doing what I wanted to do.....ride the bike..I thought that my luck was about to change....and it would..
