On our way back to Bangkok

We left at 8 am today to head back to Bangkok. It will be an all day adventure. We also crowded 15 people in our van, which was smaller than a regular 15 passenger van. each time we made a stop to pick up more people we just shook our heads and laughed. Pat had a backpack on his lap plus all around him.

Here you can see 8 of the 15 .... well 7, the 8th is behind Pats head.

We made it to Krabi at 10:30 am and just wandered around. Went to an outlet mall ... Right! It was quite funny. We head out from here at 4 pm where we go to Suratthani to catch the night train at midnight. We met a nice young man, Nut, who is an entrepreneur. He has his own photography business plus his own IT business and coffee shop.

Nut was married this past year and hopes to come to the states sometime this year. We, of course, invited him to come stay with us. We'll see if he takes us up on the offer.

Our ride to Suratthai was packed once again. Pat met and talked to a nice young lady from Canada. They talked almost the whole 2 hours but I plugged into my book. So ready to get to the train. We get to the drop off of the 11 people who are taking the night bus but one guy who is by himself is told to get back in the van. There's no room for him. We felt sorry for him, he kept asking if he was catching another bus. They didn't really let him know. We rode a little further and the driver got out and talked to someone and they came and told him, Hugh from Scotland, that he would be riding the night train. This will be better anyway. We go to the train station and find a cute coffee shop and sit for a little bit as we have 4 hours to kill. Hugh is a nice young man, he has a zillion tattoos. His latest one he got hjust last night. It looked like it was of a temple ... He had on a tank top and tried to show us. He "could" have taken it off but I would have lusted so it was a good thing he didn't.

We decided to look around for a bit which was funny because we were in a very run down area. Pat wanted to eat too. He got something from a street vendor which I couldn't eat. I got a healthy bag of chips. He said the food was really good. I had stayed with our bags across the tracks from the main area. Little did I knw there were water bugs like back in Georgia everywhere. I tried not to scream but it just grossed me out so much. When Pat got back from eating he pointed out the big rats scurrying around, they were as big as cats! I just wanted get on the train so bad. Sexy Hugh came back and sat with us some more. He's been traveling for awhile trying to figure out what to do next. He said there is school in Scotland he's planning on going to where he will get a masters in forensic art, I think anyway. This might be something that Zac might be interested in doing. He seems to be be just wandering here and there, getting more tattoos. :)

Our train finally comes and I'm so excited. We have seats across from one another which means we'll have a top and bottom bunk. Pat gets the bottom of course. Our beds are made so we crawl in. It doesn't take long before we both are out. Nighty night!

 

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