Day, The First

It's no fun leaving your ever lovin' behind, but I am looking forward to this trip so much. Three weeks away riding most of the time. Woohoo! Here's the plan.

Arrive in Bangkok about midnight local time Friday. Crash, and not burn, surface sometime saturday. Most important, find the best banana pancake street stall. (time for a Marx aside; The backpackers trail in Asia is sometimes called the Banana Pancake Trail these days. For some reason so many people eat masses of banana pancakes while they're traveling and at no other time! If they are so good why don't we have them at home?) Sunday I will try to meet up with Wisit, a Thai guy who had some old Jap motorbikes that I met thru the Suzuki TS forum. Monday meet April at the airport as she sees her friend Amanda off. After that we pretty much wing it. Plan A is to head into the northern mountains at Chang Mai, hire scooters, and ride toward Laos. After that, April heads home  and I have about a week and a half, and will probably head down the east side of the Gulf of Siam toward Cambodia  again on a scooter.

I'm learning a new blogger program so the format may change as I get to grips with it

Its going to be a big day, it'll be about 6 am NZ time when I get there.