I am by myself at an outdoor bar called The Zest. Kevin was too tired to come out so he is asleep by himself at the Mini Cost.
Here is a rundown of the today’s events. We woke up at about 8:00 AM, walked around and looked for a place to eat and then just ended up eating at a pretty mediocre westernized style place across from the hotel. Kevin got some microwaved salmon and I got some chicken soup stuff.
During lunch we decided to get mopeds to drive around the city and to a wat on top of one of the mountains called Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep but then decided that the traffic was too out of control in Chiang Mai so we rented a car instead. We got the car for safety reasons even though it wasn’t really that much safer, we just had a hard metal shell around our bodies instead of flying around on mopeds with no protection. Anyways, we walked out to a tuk tuk we saw parked on the street and asked the driver to take us to a car rental place. Homey took us to his friends business, Scorpion Car Rental. Our car was pretty bad ass, it was some type of tiny Toyota, the type that very big butch women drive.
I was a little too woozy from last night to drive the car so Kevin piloted. It was very, very sketchy to be driving on the wrong side of the road with 1,000’s of mopeds bobbing and weaving all around us. Kevin was pretty freaked out and so was I because it took the full concentration of both of us to make sure that we didn’t crash the car or squash a moped driver.
We eventually made it up to the top of the mountain and our intended destination where the wat was. It was a cool place and very peaceful. Words can’t do it justice so you will have to look at the pictures.
Miraculously we survived the trip without getting into an accident and we are keeping the car until noon tomorrow to drive to some ruins that are south of Chaing Mai in a town called Lamphun.
As I am writing all of this down in my journal I have just witnessed the biggest roach I have ever seen... an inch and a half long and reddish brown. Anyways, so right now I am at the bar, drinking Singha, listening to a Thai man play American musical hits such as Creedence Clearwater Revival, Eric Clapton, Lay Down Sally and Hotel Chiang Mai. He doesn’t seem to know all the words though, he kind of just mimics the sounds of the lyrics but gets most of the chorus right.
P.S. Also went to another wat in town where we saw a toad. Noticing that the air in Chiang Mai smells pretty bad, not like smog in Bangkok but just stinky, can't figure out what it is. Is it the fish sauce that is everywhere here? Also, on a positive note, no diarrhea yet. I have been drinking some pink stuff called Gastro Bismol and also eating Kevins pink tablets.
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