The Road Trip of Xgrind and AngKuGuay: Day 4

Today is the day we are heading for Mae Chan instead of the planned Chiang Rai so that we can reach Mae Sai in a shorter distance on the following day. So the route is moving off from Chiang Mai into Highway 118, and then towards Chiang Rai via Highway 1. At the beginning of the ride, we had missed the entrance to Highway 118 TWICE before we able to find the right track again. So, guess that was a bad start IMO.

Firstly, a great deal of the highway are mountain twisties. That is supposed to be our favorite kind of road right? It is supposed to until we hit a stream of slow, crawlng moving traffic which we travelled at the average of only 76km/h... uber boring. If the traffic is clear, the road will be very fun. Hopefully tomorrow's road will have little traffic.

Secondly, midway down the trip, AKG indicated that he had lost his kidney belt. For the clueless, it is a riding protective gear that straps around your kidney area, protecting the lower back. That partly kinda ruined his mood, on top of the lousy riding experience today.

Then when we reached Mae Chan, we only managed to find one hotel in the vicinity and it happened to be full. So no choice, had to head back to Chiang Rai for accomodation. Along the way, AKG took off his helmet, put it into the helmet bag, and rode with only his headgear and sunglass. When we reached Chiang Rai, we started to hunt around for a decent, reasonably priced hotel to stay in for the night. Alas, most of the hotels we had asked are full and no room left. We roamed around the city, in sweaty tired & frustrated condition, for more than an hour just to find a hotel to stay in. This is partly due to festive season I guess. In the end, we finally found this Wiang Inn Hotel, which its room charge is not within our planned accommodaton budget but considering the odds of finding another available room in another hotel in the city plus the sky is getting dark, we decided not to take any more chance and just stay in there. And since we have paid a premium price for the hotel stay, we will take the free breakfast in the hotel tomorrow! \m/

So by the time we unpacked, we were so hungry that we decide to just change to casual wear and hunt for dinner. Along the way, gotten ourselves a T-shirt with the design indicating the Highway Number to this city. Hey, we deserved to wear these Tees proudly man!

Here we are, sitting next to each other, blogging away on our individual blogs but today there's no photos taken. Too bad.

Hopefully more happier and happening events/scenery will arise for us to take more photos along the way. Ya, tomorrow will be a better riding day. :)

Signing off