I'm off to see the wizard

Momma I'm coming Homeeee

Well this hopefully will be my last whiny blog about traveling but when your done reading this you'll understand why I have to do it. First off I was wrong about the minibus leaving at 4:45am that one wasn't running yesterday so I left at 8am from Batu Ferringhi and it took 5 hours to get to Hat Yai in southern thailand. From there we took another bus up to Surat Thani that took 5 more hours but I had a fellow Canadian on board so we chatted for a few hours and it made the time pass a bit quicker. When we finally arrived in Surat Thani we had to catch a public bus to the train station and there we met up with one of her friends from Vancouver. We had 4 hours to kill before the train so we went and played some cards in a restuarant near the train station. They were going to Bangkok and I decided to come just to Hua Hin, 4 hours south of Bangkok to relax on some beaches before heading back home. The train left Surat Thani at 9:23pm and arrived at 4:40am in Hua Hin. Before buying my ticket I asked the guy working there if any hotels would be open when I arrived and he assured me that they all would be so when I arrived in Hua Hin I went and got on a moto taxi to go to the guest house I wanted to stay at. Sure enough it was closed and he took me to 5 or 6 other places all closed so I told him to just take me back to the train station and I'll wait there and come back in a few hours. When we got back to the train station he tried to get more money out of me for driving me back there but I just walked away b/c I was too tired to deal with that crap. I went and found a bench in the train station which was really just a log with the sides slightly shaved down and feel asleep for a few hours. When I woke up at 10 to 7 I had a swarm of mosquitos around my head, which is definatly the last thing I want to see in the morning. I quickly jumped up and started brushing them away and I bet I looking like a manic to everyone in the station. At that point I couldn't go back to sleep so I got another moto taxi to take me back to the guest house but it was still closed so I just decided to sit out front and wait for it to open. Then I saw a sign that pointed down this back alley for a 24 hr guest house so I went and checked it out. When I saw the bed I decided that it was stupid to wait any longer for the other place and I just got a room there and crashed for a few hours. I woke up after 4 hours of glorious sleep and started watching news of the Iraqi election and then decided I need a real meal b/c I didn't have one all day yesterday so I headed out. I ended up with one of the best Phad See ews I've had on this whole trip and now I'm sitting here relaxing. I have to go hunt for a new book and then its off to the beach to sit in the shade and read. Hopefully the next four days will be extremly uneventful and just nice and relaxing, I could really go for that now.

posted by Brandon Share @ 1:02 PM