Dear Crashpad Diary #34
Yooooooo beastsā¦ hahah whats the story??
IĀ“ll write this one down to have the last few bit of the trip registeredā¦ we actually are atm in Dublinā¦ enjoying the new lifeā¦ having a blast and organizing pretty much everything hehehe
yepā¦ coming back takes time, energy and some mind work hehehe
wellā¦ lets go back few pagesā¦ IĀ“ll tell yas what happened during our last weeks of the trip in Thailandā¦ plusā¦ we can grab all the awesome energy we were accumulating there!! =)
Soā¦ after the fantastic days we had in Pai, enjoying the altitude, the weather a little more chill, the beautiful nature and all the days of the street marketā¦ the one you start in one side of the street electing the food youĀ“ll get and at the other end youĀ“ll have so many dishes and snacks already chosen in your had that you have to go through the list a second or a third time and chat loads with your conscience in order to get the food you want not the ones your eyes chose! hahahahaha
And off we went driving the same routeā¦ 762 curves backā¦ no one got sickā¦ actually in a bike itĀ“s quite hard getting motion sicknessā¦ I, instead, got some bee coming towards us when we were at prob 60-70 km/h and bit meā¦ yepā¦ thats itā¦ the bee came as a bullet ready to make me suffer!! that little bastard!! hahaha
The animals that day were madā¦ we almost crashed into a crab that was crossing the bridgeā¦ haha it sounds crazy butā¦ itĀ“s Thailand!! hahaha
We had to go back to Chiang Mai to get the trainā¦ we had already the tickets of the night train to Bangkokā¦ what a great oneā¦ we slept wellā¦ enjoyed the trip and could relax before getting to the Big City!!
Bangkok, as usual is greatā¦ noisyā¦ bigā¦ hecticā¦ full of possibilitiesā¦ options to have funā¦ and parksā¦ many of them! As we had been there in the past we went for the different attractions and quite started settling downā¦ we needed some time to calm down after all the ājumping from one place to the other kind of tripā!
The parks in there have open-air gyms and we frequented pretty oftenā¦ we had to get started going back to our normal life right?? And the best option is getting healthier and stop eating all the shit stuff available and that you really donāt care much while traveling hahaha
But be careful peepsā¦. if youāre exercising, you should look for assistance from a pro if youĀ“re not used or donĀ“t know what to doā¦ cuz we saw some weird drills going on in those open-air free gyms!! Of course, you get the same weird people exercising back in Europe as wellā¦ in fact IĀ“ve seen many doing moves that willā¦ at some pointā¦ injure badly the personā¦. mainly guys doing wrongā¦ because if the instructors at the gyms see a pretty girls doing wrongā¦. they will āprofessionallyā help her correcting the postureā¦ merely because itĀ“s their job!! haha
Among all those ābreaking badā exercises, the ones that stick to my mind are the old man that works out chest 5 days consecutively and the guys that was trying to grow a six pack in his neckā¦. cuz manā¦ thatĀ“s defo not a workout for coreā¦. he was moving his head up and down only!! hahahahah No joking nowā¦. IĀ“ve seen these type of exercises here in Ireland tooā¦. it might be getting hyper!! hahahaha Way to go peepsā¦. the 6 pack protecting your jugular artery is the trendy!! hahahaha
Talking about weird peopleā¦ we had the unpleasant experience of sharing a room with a guy thatā¦ on the night before his departure (which would be at 5am)ā¦ he decided go for a marathon of packingā¦. he was incredibly packing and unpacking his belongings for the whole nightā¦. IĀ“m not even kiddingā¦. he spent literally the whole night getting ready to his tripā¦. and the worse is that he did that just outside the roomā¦ opening and closing the door every fucking minute hahahah If only he had loads of bagsā¦ but spend the entire night doing that with one bag must be quite boring for him!! haha And for usā¦ the sleepy people inside the roomā¦. twas a nightmare hehe oh wellā¦. when you get a dorm it happens though!! =)
You have to be prepared to pretty much everythingā¦. people are amazing!! And they can be awesome for the good or the badā¦ its a matter of luckyā¦. but youĀ“ll certainly have fun!! Either or!! haha
Speaking about joyā¦. we had so much rain the last days in Bangkokā¦. seemed that the weather Gods wanted prep us to our time back to Ireland haha ā¦. but that was awesome in factā¦ it is so good the warm rain down thereā¦ =)
During the entire trip IĀ“ve been asked how was the life in Ireland with all the rain and stuffā¦ and I always say that people complain too muchā¦ the rain is not bad as the rumoursā¦ Funny enoughā¦ since I came backā¦ in 8 days I got 7 rainy ones!! hahahahah
As we had some days left before heading home, we decided of going in a last adventureā¦ to Ayutthayaā¦ an old cityā¦ full of temples pretty close to Bangkok and manā¦ it is worth it!
The Place is just by the riverā¦ the temples give it a different atmosphereā¦ Bangkok haveĀ“em tooā¦ but if you consider the size of the cityā¦ Ayutthaya has a concentration of ancient architecture that impressā¦ adding upā¦ the small night market and the people, it all made the experience sweet!!
And bitter at the same timeā¦ hehe as this one would be the last trip of the biggest adventureā¦ 11 months of tripping, smiles and love sharing, people, foodsā¦ was coming to its end...
We took the train back to Bangkokā¦ incredibly cheap once againā¦. and as usualā¦ we had to experience the normal lifeā¦ commuting with the locals gives you a different perspective of the country!
And hilarious facts tooā¦ during the trip we were photographed by a local photographer that was taking pics of the station and asked us to pose for him hehe but the best story happened during the tripā¦ I was sharing my seat with an old and huge scale that belonged to the lady selling fruits veggies and all while bringing them to the capitalā¦ I was sitting facing the window, listening some podcast and enjoying the way the trees and small cabins were steady while weĀ“re moving but sometimes I would imagine them moving while we were steadyā¦
Funny thoughts going on when, suddenly, some mangoes passed by my head flying through the window.. but I could even feel the wind they created passing close enough to my earsā¦. I look back and there was the old lady separating the good mangoes and shooting the ānot good onesā at whatever was outside the train hehehe PSā¦. as a mango freakā¦ I would defo eat the ones she was disposing!! (I needed to highlight that for some reason!! haha)
Soā¦ after a photo shoot and mango shoot we were back to the big cityā¦
This time of the year the rains are often and youĀ“ll get wetā¦ donāt worry! But the good part is that the water is not cold at allā¦ one must enjoy that type of rainā¦ I loved =) such a great feeling going outā¦ close your eyes and just let the drops and its lack of pattern hit your skin for a whileā¦ =)
What is not enjoyable thoughā¦ is the way coming and going everywhere when it rainsā¦ when you add water to that city and its causewaysā¦ you get a huuuuuuge iceskating rink as a resultā¦ haha it gets seriously dangerous!! The ground becomes so slippery that you must forget about your concept of waking and need to start applying all your skill you gathered during your years of skating/iceskating/inlineskating/snowboardingā¦ and if youĀ“d never doneā¦ donĀ“t worryā¦ you can start practicing the most popular sport during the rain season in Thailandā¦ the Water Skating!! BTWā¦ the Converse All-stars are the best for that kinda sport!! hehe
Off course youĀ“ll see many many many peeps failing and ending up in the middle of the street with bleeding knees as so onā¦ but as the philosopher saysā¦ there is no way to get better in sth if you donāt struggle!! hehehe
I was thinking of writing an End to the tripā¦ you knowā¦ grabbing our bagsā¦ taking the uber at 5 am to the airportā¦ enjoying the āawesomeā inflight mealsā¦. the movies and the huge spiral of feelings related to the tripsā¦ the thoughts of the future and the certainty that amazing things are comingā¦.
However... as life is THE TRIPā¦. I just wanna emphasize my infinite gratitude and paraphrase Douglas Adamsā¦ DONĀ“T PANIC!! =)
Have fun beasts and see you soon around carrying smiles, good vibes, my crashpad and.. a towel! hehe
Evan
