Chaiyaphum > Ban Nong Bua Khok (50km)

Today, I’ve been travelling from a good spot to another very good one! Lucky me :-) I stopped as usual at the PTT petrol station and worked on my website. Mainly that’s all I’ve done today, nothing fancy, just efficiency: Early cool ride, arrived at the petrol station, had a shower and washed my clothes, worked at the café, went out for lunch, came back at the café until 5pm, enjoyed evening ride and wonderful sky, found a great spot for the night, cooked some noodles, had a “one litre shower” and slept deeply. And especially, no dogs bothered me! Perfect!

Map.

Elevation

Back to this morning. After the storm, the night became quiet again. No dogs, nobody came here, I was totally fine.

Back on the road again :-) Monks are doing their daily walk to gather their food for the day.

The sky is well covered for now. I’m enjoying the fresh air.

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Amazon Café, again and again :-) Well this one is a cross over between a café, the Amazon and Disneyland haha. I’m not a big fan…

What sort of nice, cheap and unhealthy food I can get to feel fool? It’s mainly cheap but they sell more air than anything here.

The 10 baht cookie packet + 20 baht plastic bread for two snacks:-) That’s the heaviest I can find for the price. I call this a “Thai chocolate bread” or “Thai Pain au Chocolat”. If you close your eyes and think very strongly about France, you might get the right taste haha. I should have bought better though, lots of it :-)

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I’m off the office now, back on the saddle again. The sky is very overwhelming! Those clouds look huge!

Bloody electric cables everywhere… I’m on the wrong side of the road and didn’t take the time to find the right spot. That’s what it is when you don’t go as far as you can.

I’m hungry already. I left maybe 20 minutes ago only. If I don’t eat something sweet before I start cycling at around 5pm I feel shaky. Few more chocolate biscuits and plastic bread will do the trick.

I must find a shelter tonight. I feel rain is coming.

They abandoned Petrol Station will certainly help. I had to cross the road but it’s worth it. Look at the sky, it’s nearly in fire now!

Lots of plantations here.

Colours are beautiful now.

I don’t shoot that much skies normally but when it’s like this… It’s different :-)

burning clouds!

Behind me is also quite different and still very nice :-)

Walking around this dead area, I ended up front of this huge shelter, just what I was looking for. There is enough poles to fit three hammocks here and enough seats for 8 person. I think, I’ve got enough space for myself :-)

Let’s prepare dinner and set up the camp.

Perfect spot :-) Slightly too close to the road but at least, no storm will become a pain from here. I will be fine :-) Good night!