Laurie's World

The plan today was to head to MaeRim to see Ian and Tee. We have never taken the yellow truck before, so thought this would work work for us. Nick had appointment at 11:30am for a tattoo so Rachael came with us and we headed to the meeting spot for yellow trucks just north of the old city around 10:20am. It took us about 35 minutes to walk there including a stop in a motorcycle shop to Buy a motorcycle net that Landon asked us to look for! Mission accomplished! The yellow truck costs 20 baht per rider so a pretty good deal considering it will take us all the way to maeRim plaza. Then we plan to walk to Pansawan (Tee and Ian’s). The yellow truck ride was about 40 minutes and then the final walk was about 35-40 minutes. It was very very hot but we managed. Knowing relaxation, food, drink and best of all, awesome company was waiting for us!

Ian has a rescue bird (with a cute Thai name I don’t remember) now and it took quite a liking to us. I almost thought a bird might be a fun little pet until I realized it poops every 32 seconds……that is not an exaggeration either!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We basically ate all afternoon! Food has this magical way of falling out of the sky when we are with Tee ❤❤  Rachael spent some time in the kitchen brushing up on her Thai cooking skills! They made red curry and som tham (papaya salad), Tee already had Hang Lay made (that takes a couple days!). Plus plates of mango and pineapple just kept appearing! I ate most of that! Nothing quite like perfectly ripe mango….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When Nick arrived, they went to harvest more mangoes (he’s really tall 🤣🤣) and then they all did some MORE cooking. Khao soi gai and Panang!

We went for a walk around 5pm once the sun dropped a little in the sky and it was maybe only 95 degrees. But it was nice to walk through the village, see her temple and meet Tee’s family and friends.

By 9:00pm we figured we should head back into the city. Ian offered to drive us after we attempted to get a ‘Grab’ (thai version of Uber)   Pansawan is kind of in the boonies, on an unnamed street even, and we weren’t sure if a driver would pick it up. Oddly enough it did say it was picked up and that a driver would come in 7 minutes. But no one ever came, so Ian said he would run us in.

About 2/3 of the way in, the car died! So that was unexpected. We attempted some low level interventions (adding water to radiator) but the end result was us calling Grab again and Tee and Ian calling family to come get them. Car left…..tbd what happens there next.

The good news is that we were now on the highway to town, so Grab was quick and cheap and we were back in our hotel by 11ish. Beautiful Long Hot day with an unfortunate ending but overall so glad we saw our friends.

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