The Road Trip of Xgrind & AngKuGuay: Day 2

After about 10 hours of good deep sleep (surprisingly), we finally arrived at Nakhon Pathom Railway Station where we will load down the bikes unscathed.

Both of us were hungry, smelly (yes, we haven't bathed since the beginning of the trip) but fresh from the sleep and seeing that we can continue with the riding again. While we were loading up the baggage onto the bikes, the crowd were looking at us as if we were some aliens from another planet. Guess that they don't get to see big bikes in this town much, since there are not much singaporean bikes riding around the area.

Once we are out of the station, since we are not familiar with the place, we just rode around until we hit the main highway where we slowly ride until we found a nice little coffee place called "Friendly Coffee" and had breakfast plus enjoying the free wireless internet access (hence the Day 1 blog entry). After having our fill, we moved off at Thai time 10am.

From Nakhon Pathom, we rode to Highway 321 via Highway 4. Since our arrival at Thailand, we had been using Gasohol 95 as petrol seems to be unavailable. However we had read up that it does not really affect EFI engines, so we proceed to fill our tanks with it. So far so good.

After lunch, time to move off again. We continued to ride on Highway 321 until we rode on Highway 340 at Suphan Buri. As we pump at a gasoline kiosk, we had our lunch as well to fill our stomach as well as our tanks. Once done, we moved on towards Chai Nat for Highway 1. Along the way there we met with a traffic jam on the highway. At first we thought to be some kind of riot but later found out to be their Thai King is in the vicinity hence the police blocked off the junction and caused the traffic jam. The jam set our schedule back by 45 mins and once cleared we carried on with the journey.

Jam on Highway 340

Once we reached Chai Nat, we knew that we will not be able to reach our intended destination, Lampang, in time. So, after some plotting, we fixed Tak as our newest destination where we will find a hotel and stay for the night.

When we reached Tak, timing was just nice as the sun had set and with the help of Nokia Maps on my trusty N95 8GB, we were able to find a nearby hotel with ease. So we dropped by this hotel called Suansin Hotel and managed to find a room for us to bunk in. Guess how much is the hotel room? 370 baht! Fucking cheap! And the room facilities are not rundown I assure you, really a bang for the buck :)

Finally we had our first shower since the beginning of the trip and then proceed to have our dinner. How can we not eat their Thai food when we are here? Of course we ordered the famous TomYum soup and Fried Thai Noodles, I will say the food is real nice. However, the bill that came up happened to be more paang (expensive) than our hotel room charge LOL.

The famed Tom Yum Soup

Now, we are relaxing in the room, preparing for the trip tomorrow. That's all for Day 2 :)