Travel days are not very exciting, particularly when your flight leaves in the early afternoon. That cuts the day in half, so you cannot really enjoy the morning. We did have breakfast together, but after that it was time to checkout of the hotel, say goodbye, and head for the airport. The wait was long and boring, the flight was uneventful, and the only thrilling part started with finding the auto rental booths, renting the car (a Toyota sedan), and navigating out of the airport. I wanted to get out of Bangkok as soon as possible, but that is easier said than done because the urban tentacles extend at least 50 km away from the city in all directions. I had to take a toll road, in which I successfully managed to chose the right lanes to do manual payment, and slowly got up to speed on the left-hand traffic. The roads here in Thailand are very good and the drivers are not as insane as in other of the countries I have recently visited so I had no problem adjusting to the flow.
For the next few days I will be in southern Thailand, where the main attraction are the beaches. I am going to have to force myself to take it easy and relax. My first stop is at the Cha-Am beach, on the Gulf of Thailand. I chose it at random as being the closest beach area to the airport, but even then it was 165 km away, so I got here after dark. It has a nice tropical sense to it.
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