I'm off to see the wizard

Back in Bangkok only for 3 days thank got

Well I was hoping after the last trip from Batu Ferringhi upto Hua Hin that I wouldn't have anymore crappy traveling stories but today was just one big bad trip. So I got up and left this morning and took a mototaxi to the bus stop, which was very interesting. The driver had my new bag across his lap and I had my big pack on my back and my day pack on my chest. Then I had a 3 hours bus ride up to Bangkok, which wasn't too bad except for one part where the road was really bad I felt like I was on a rollarcoaster b/c my stomach kept on jumping up into my chest. But then when we get to, well I still don't know where I was they pull over to some random bus stop and yell something in Thai. Everyone gets off and I'm confused as hell but I get off to b/c I see that they threw my bags out into the middle of the sidewalk. Luckily there was a dirty European dude on there with his Thai 'girlfriend' so he knew what was going on and filled me in. The bus was having some difficulties and we were close enough to the main bus station that we could walk or just take a bus from there. Then there was this Thai guy who over heard our coversation and was able to tell which bus I needed to take to get to Khao Sarn road. I got on this public bus which was packed with my two big bags and had a very uncomfortable ride through lovely Bangkok traffic. Then the public bus dropped me off a few blocks away so it took me about 20 mins to find my way to the actual street. This was definatly not a pleasant stroll in the park with my two bags and the blistering 35 degrees. But I finally make it to the hotel I stayed at last time and sure enough they have no rooms. I proceed to the place I stayed at last time and of course they have one double room that is right above the street and well frankly just sucks! So I continue on to about 5 more places and finally I found one place that had a decent room altho it was still a double it had to do b/c it was just too hot out there. So I took a quick shower and then headed out to pick up my suit. When I got there I tried it on and the pants were too long so they had to shorten them so I had to come back there later. After that I came back and had some lunch and then relaxed with a book before trying to walk back to the suit place to pick it up. The guy told me it was only a 15 min walk and when I looked on my map it seemed fairly simple to get there. One left, two rights and one more left. Sounds simple enough, until you come to traffic circles with 3 streets on the left. Well I took advantage of the Thai friendly nature and had people try to direct me but for some reason that didn't help much either. One guy sent me in the right direction but I ended up at another traffic circle and didn't know which street to go down b/c none of the names on the street signs were on my map. So I asked someone else and he pointed to a street but it wasn't the right one, anyways that 15 min walk turned out to be 50 mins. I picked up my suit and then decided to take a tuk tuk back! Now I'm just killing some time and then I might go over to a mall and see if I can catch a movie, I just don't want to go get stuck in traffic again.

posted by Brandon Share @ 7:54 PM