Monthly Archives: September 2016

Nong Song Hong to Khon Kaen to Chiang Mai to Pai in four days

Pai - Huai Nam Dang National Park

Pai – Huai Nam Dang National Park

Friday (16 September 2016)
On my way back from dropping Adri at school I was on a keen lookout for that thin longish black-as-night snake that I inadvertently rode over yesterday morning. There was no evidence of a body on the road so I guess he got away with a mere physical bruising from our encounter, mine was a more severe mental one. Continue reading

Nong Song Hong, we’re gonna miss you…

Nong Song Hong sunset

Nong Song Hong sunset

Friday (9 September 2016)
After I dropped Adri at school I realized that the bike’s fuel was getting low so stopped off at the local PTT station for a fill up. Once filled up my stallion was raring to go, chomping at the bits, so I gave it free rein and it bolted out of town towards Phon. It then turned off towards Ban Phai at a fine gallop and only slowed down to a canter and then down to a trot when I reined it in to take me into and around a number of little villages Continue reading

Nong Song Hong was good to us, but…

Our view from where we stay

Our view from where we stay

Friday (2 September 2016)
Nong Song Hong was good to us, but… it will be good to move on as well. Be as it may, we’re sure gonna miss this place. Adri woke up this morning with a just-eleven-more-working-days-left look in her eyes and I understood. In two weeks’ time Adri’s stint will come to an end, the stint of Teaching English in a Foreign Language (TEFL). She insisted on getting practical teaching experience after completing her TEFL course towards the end Continue reading

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