east

tomorow I decided to head west twards the train junction south.
this will get me on a train to Maylaisia, I'll be sad to say goodbye to Thailand, but...

I'll post more next time I hit a town with internet.,

(here's tohoping that i can trade guide books with someone at the border (not that they have any of the small citys that i'm hitting)

sichon to nakhon si thammarat

it's been a long day, so i'll try and make this short.
lert sichon around 6am took back roads checking my coumpess often to continue heading south and east. ended up doing alot of dips it tawards the sea then back as roads didn't go through. after a few hours of that and some nice small villages and dirt roads folloed the highway and turned into kun lom (spelling) natanal park, it was a loong ride in, but there was a nice waterfall (i'll try and add a photo) (ok blogger being a bitch.. it's up on my facebook.)
then i had to bust ass to make it to nakhon si thammarat, i dipped in east looking for a musuium but couldn't find it, travelsd back roads for awhile and got to a dead end at a harbor, so had to back trackk about 20 min.
pulled in to town and found a suprising nice hotel room at thai lee hotel, for about 140b
think i may stay an extra day to rest up after the ride, it was between 150 - 180 k
my bike computer thoough i fixed it is not showing the corect speed or distance.. its a pice of crap $10 bell.. may try to fine tune it some outher time..

koh tao to sichon

first off sorry i haven't been updating this, but haven't been cycling too much, and no one reads it anyways..

last night took the night ferry over to the mainland from koh tao, ost of people looked on with interest as i broke the bike down and bungees it all together with strips of old inertube (theya re so handy)
after a restless night of ward sleep, feeling like i'd wake up every 20min to roll right left r somewhere trying to be comfy..
got into surat tani pier around 5 am
stuck the bike together, tryed to find a somewhat Private place to get on my biking undershorts.
and headed off, it took quite some time to get my headings out of town, lots of going one block stopping trying to read the crap map in the lonely planmest, repeat, but finaly did it, big thanks to the compass i have,
i think for the most part as long as i continue east and south i should be good.
today i stuck to the high way, kinda crappy with traffic big trucks ect, but it's the only road shown on my map. and i left my thai road atless in bkk, along with my gps.. fucking smart hu.. but i wanted to pack light and will be in maylaisa soon where they wil be useless, and take up wayyyyy to much space.
rode from around 530/6am to 130pm, and am i frigging tired, trammadol 1/2 way through has kiled some of the pain but i'll hurt later, gonna really try and sped some quality time stretching.
just pulled into sichon, and now am going in the search for a room (probably over priced but it's something)
my bike computer is broken (pice of crap anyways so couldn't really keep track of the kilos, thinking 60-80 today...
it's still early and if i was a bit more conditioned and knew i'd find a place to sleep before sunset i think i could get alot farther..
anyways, later today i'll try and take some time with the bke, see if i can figure ut why the back brake keeps sticking, the high gear cog rubs, the water cage is broken and in need of some more tape, and going to dick with the computer, it shouldn't be tough to rewire fix if i can just get my head around it.
i'd be afully happy to pass a real bike shop , saw one in surat tani, but didn't want to waste the cooler hours of the morning waiting around for them to open.
i'm hoping tomorrow to more just follow my nose, keeping south and east most the day then as need be i can try and navigate to a town.. may be a disaster, with lots of dead ends, ect but i'd really like to do some smaller back roads, screw this high way crap... maybe google maps has gotten to this area , but i doubt it.. (love you iphone!)

anyways hope this is of some help or of interest to someone out here..
I know i spend alot of time searching online for bits of info and am happy when someone takes the time.