February 26th: Chumphon to Lang Suan District – 66.6 km

Day 136

We boogied today and arrived at the destination for the day around noon.

Back on the highway, we enjoyed the extremely smooth shoulder and flat terrain, but that was about it. We have started seeing more fruit for sale and stopped to purchase a little pineapple for 10 Baht and a very large bunch of little bananas for 40. We had the pineapple cut for us and devoured it on the spot. Now that we are in a more rural areas we are seeing less supermarkets and that is just as well, now we have more fruit in our diet.

We found a little row of rooms without air-conditioning nor hot showers but we did have Wi-Fi. We don’t miss the air-conditioning, and the cold showers are welcome after a hot day. If you do get a bungalow, remember to find one in the shade since bungalows have little insulation and the little rooms with low ceilings concentrate the heat. The motel or hotel style rooms are much better, especially if they have a high ceilings and good air flow. We made sure to choose the room in the middle of the row as opposed to a room at one of the ends. Since we rely on open windows, several mosquito-infested nights have taught us to double-check that our screens don’t have any holes or gaps.

We worked diligently and finished updating the blog and uploading photos. I’m sure as you’ve seen we do get behind and after a hot or stressful day typing is not high on my list of priorities so I put it off as long as possible. Cher has much more self-discipline so she shares some of it with me by gentle scolding and spanking. I do enjoy logging our days. Without weekends, work, or any social life everything has a tendency to blur together. We also hope that this will entertain some procrastinating at their desk, let others know we are alive and well.