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We got up at 7am, per the usual, and headed down to get some coffee. The guest house, SK, was the least hospitable of our accommodations thus far. However we had just come from the Four Seasons and any place would have seemed inferior so it was probably appropriate to lower our expectations with this … Continue reading
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Waiting to hop a train in Thailand is becoming a reoccurring theme: It’s hot and tense while you never know what’s coming down the track – or when. We enjoy watching tons of earth shaking steel rumble but we’d rather get on board before the station dogs sick their fangs in our direction.
First try:
Number two:
And then…
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We waited at the station for the 9:01pm that turned into the 9:45pm…no matter. We shared our sleeper car with a lovely young Brit named Kate (19 and traveling before university) and a Czech stranger on the top bunk that stumbled in at 10pm, climbed up to his bunk and passed out without closing the … Continue reading
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There’s something romantic about hooking up with an good ol’ diesel locomotive. Except for this particular little engine unhitched and snuck off just three stops toward Ayutthaya stranding us with no locomotive in north Bangkok. We could have Tuk Tuk’d that far. Plus we didn’t even get lunch out of the deal – some engines are just weak.
Luckily after a couple hours and as many beers, rescue came in the arrival of a proper powerplant. This engine treated us right while pulling us through to the ancient city.
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