My
2nd ride to Indochina country in 2012. 28th April – 11th
May 2012.
Day 2 – Cha Am -> Phitsanulok
After a very good rest and enough sleep, it’s time to ride
again. We check out around noon from Cha Am and the first thing to do is fuel
up the tank and then have a brunch (breakfast & lunch). In the petrol
station at the junction from Cha Am to Highway 4, there is a Muslim stall. So
far it’s easy to find halal food along the way till today.
From here we move on toward Nakhon Pathom. The road
condition is very good and straight road.
The traffic are medium since it already near to Bangkok. From Highway 4,
we turn left to Nakhon Pathom on route 321 all the way to Suphan Buri where we
stop to refuel and rest. It was a very hot.. hot day. The temperature are
around 41 – 43 Celsius. At the Petrol station, we met group of biker from Lop
Buri who on the way to Kanchanaburi. Even we are not speaking the same
language, but once it come to bike & ride there is no hassle at all.
From here we took
route 340 to Chai Nat. It already in late evening once we cross the Chao Phraya
river. It was a nice view during sunset with green paddy field as a background.
After Chai Nat, we enter to Highway 1 toward Nakhon Sawan.
It already 8pm once we stop for 2nd refuelling for today just few
kilometres from the town. Here we meet another group of Malaysian bikers who on
the way to Mae Hong Son but they use a train from South to Bangkok. It is great
to meet another fellow rider from the same country. We make a move first since
our route was difference. We continue the journey on Highway 1 to Nakhon Sawan
and then took route 117 toward Pitsanulok.
Just after we cross the town, toward Pitchit, we can see a
heavy lightning far away in front of us. Think that it will end by the time we
reach those areas and it wrong. Strong wind can be feel and we can see from
light of our bike. On the sudden, heavy rain start to down pour and on this
route, there is no place to stop so we just continue the ride carefully. By
this time the very strong wind start to blow from our left side with raining
still pouring us. It was a critical moment. The bike has to lean to left in
order to counter the strong wind. I can feel that the bike was shift to the
right every time the strong cross wind blowing. At this moment, then I realise
that we are riding in the middle of the tropical storm. I still can remember
that at that time the speedometer shown only 20km/h and on the second gear. It
took us about an hour for those few kilometres. After we pass the storm, half
of the highway is being close due to falling tree due to the storm. We reach to
our hotel around 10pm.
Today was a most adventures ride. In the day time we ride in
very hot temperature and at night being hit by the storm. But we are still
alive to tell the story.
