July 2nd, 2014
Getting out and about!
Super proud of our productivity today! Got up after a pretty good nights sleep by 7:45am and managed to get ourselves to breakfast place in town by 9:30! Getting five people on the same page and anywhere together in a timely fashion is nothing short of a miracle. Had coffee, orange juice (real juice with pulp) 2 eggs, slice of ham, REAL BACON, 2 slices of whole wheat toast with real strawberry jam! All for 100 baht! $3 USD What a great deal! The best part was the bacon–not gonna lie.
So feeling good about how things are going so far, we make our way back to the hotel to recombobulate (guessing that’s not a word since it is redlined in my program here) but you know what I mean! Bruce Jackie Troy and I decided to head up to Wat Phra That and see the big white Buddha we can see up the side of the mountain from our hotel. The nice chap at the desk tells is it is a 20 minute walk maximum. He shows us a back way if we pop through the back of the hotel property, we just go down the lane and if we follow the signs we will have no trouble. Or that was my interpretation…..it actually was just as he said and we had a nice stroll (in the blazing sun) to our destination. I forgot my camera….so have no pictures for you. I am sure a couple nice ones will pop up on Troy’s blog in a couple days (he is a bit behind in his blogging 😳). Landon met us up there on his bike and we decided to go for light lunch at a place Landon saw when he rode up the street on his bike. (We went up the stairs-all 200+) it was called Sunset View @ Pai. It was very very good–had some Pad Thai, yes I did! We made the plan to come back for supper so as to actually enjoy the sunset as the name of the restaurant suggests.
Back to bungalow for some rest and then we planned to go to Pai Canyon closer to late afternoon/sunset time. Now this I do have pictures of! What a crazy beautiful place that would NEVER be allowed to exist in America. WAY too dangerous I suppose. It is a series of narrow windy gravelly paths that up on the top of what can only be described as canyons I guess. Somehow folks have decided it is a good idea to run around on the top of them so as to get beautiful views of the valleys and the town of Pai below. Hope the pictures show you what I’m talking about.
Troy, Landon and Bruce all ventured out on these precipices. I however did not go too far, but was able to capture their photos as they went (last known location photos?? 😉😉)
And off they go….
I found a comfy rock to sit on and take selfies….
With the right shoes and mind set, this could be a very fun place! I am glad the guys had fun….
We did indeed go back to the sunsets place for supper. The lady was so tickled we came back she gave us a couple mangos for the road! Super sweet and another fabulous Thai meal! It was my plan to go back to town tonight to get a repeat of the waffle I had last night with banana and Nutella, but after our big day, it didn’t appear anyone was up for the walk, so we all just crashed in our rooms by 8:30pm. But I guess in hindsight this was good, bcz it allowed me to blog 😊😊
We are leaving here tomorrow morning and heading to Soppong. Should be about a 1.5 hour drive. It is very small place and we are unable to book a place through our normal online channels, so will just go and hope to find something that meets our needs. If not, we can certainly carry on to Mae Hong Son where there are more options.
TTFN
