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[Woof1]

Gets better all the time.

I do give the Thai's a A+ for Creative Shit as it seems to never end.

Remember years ago reading a book from an Aussie guys listing all sorts of stuff that happened to him, or he gathered stuff that happened to others and regrouped it, I think book was called "Hardship Posting" Volume 1 was best, but what I think is in those books served as a guideline for the Thai's to come up with Volume 4 ( Must have a commission in there somewhere)

You do have a better attitude that I do guy, I would be pissed for days and end up on my own blowing Steam like a Train.

[batman4ever]

the only reason i didnt get more upset...is because iam prepered for them to do some stupid...   and that is proberly also the only thing that they will never fail to do...

 

But Hey...now we were in Loei city...and surpricingly Oh was up early every morning...so we went by foot for the market, last time i was there it was on the brigde at night/morning...and then all the stalls were closed from around 8 so the cars could use the brigde...now they had moved it so it was just on the other side of the bridge...so we went looking for breakfast...

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[rxpharm]

Batman, great trip report, I especially like your reporting on the Isaan visit. The photos of Oh really show how bad she felt about how her family treated you. She knows it was not right - but good thing her aunt turned things around.

 

It is truly amazing how much some family members of lbs just "take, take, take" and demand even more, yet other family members are great.

[batman4ever]

After the shopping trip to the night/morning market it was just relaxion, Oh was taking a nap so i just walked around town,its a nice little relaxed town,and it was nice they havent invented the touts up there after a good walk for almost 2 hours i returned to Oh helping her to wake up

 

then I sleept

 

After a good nap, i went down and the table in front of the house was now occupied with Oh,aunt,Beer....and some neighbors that turned out to be great company,so we were sitting there, enjoying our drinks and enjoyed life

 

After we had empthyed a lot of beers...and some sangsom, we were starting to get a bit hungry so we decided to go for some food...dont ask me WHERE we went as it was going pretty fast on those motorbikes... butit was after all a short ride like 2 min.

 

So there we was...in a typical isaan restaurent, 8 people...a shitload of food...more drinks...including a 3 litre beertower..great atmosphaere...and not one vacant table around us...it was deadly quiet outside the restaurent...but inside...oh my budda for a party...

 

The bill ???  well it was less than 2K

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[batman4ever]

next morning our neighbor came in with some bananas...   dont know if it was her way of saying thank you for last night,but iwe F.... never seen so big bananas before...

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[batman4ever]

next morning....it was about time to leave back to "civilised" parts of Thailand...well if you ever consider Patts to be a part of that

 

i HAD made my dessions that i couldnt trust the family to bring us...so i had checked the shedules for the busses going from Loei to Udon Thani...so i was just planning to take a tuk-tuk from the street to the bus-station in the city...but aprox. an hour before my planned departure-time...the "long-lost-family" showed up with the car...so it was a bit akward as i actually didnt wanted to "happy-chat" with any of them....

 

So we jumped in back of the wan..."farang-class" and 5 min. later we were at the bus-station...about 45 min. before departure as i learned my lesson...so there was time for a quick beer at the local...isaan-price was 35 thb. for a beer there...

 

on to the bus...it was very old...but it did the trick...but as always...it took a WAY loooonger time that was sheduled...so in the end we had to RUN to catch the airplane .... well we did it..and to confess i was once again a happy man when we were seated in the airplane

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[batman4ever]

Just a piece of warning to thse who ever plans to go by bus from Loei to udon-thani....DONT trust the scheduled time plan...it was by the plan iwe found a trip that was supposed to take aprox. 2,5 hour...it almost took 4   we ended up in udon-thani less than 25 min befre take-off...and that was not in the airport...but aprox 2 km from there

lucky for us...the local tuk-tuks was there at the busstop...so we entered one of those and i made him drive like Schumi to get to the airport

 

Thank god that udon-thani is such a small airport so we were able to still check-inn

 

funnyli enough...the flight it self took almost 40 min. LESS than planned...so we actually had to wait 25 min for the booked taxi in DMK

 

Thinking back of my isaan trip...theres actually a FEW things that  i will be happy thinking about...the last night in the Thai-reataurent...and funy enough...the bus-rides with the locals   after all...it was funny despite my only angry moment on the whole trip...

 

also i will miss the beer-prices at the bus-station in Loei where i paid 35 thb. for an ice-cold singha at the "restaurent"...or maybe it was just the happy feeling i had about getting away from the "family"