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An early day and it just kept getting better!
We had a good rest and as the alarm went off, I got up to pack my stuff and made sure that everything was good to go.
This time round, I packed my Ortlieb Hip Pack onto the Frontroller pannier. Now, there's little real estate on this little pannier, but it does swallow the hip pack in whole.
All my essential stuff were packed in the Ortlieb Trunk Bag.
In short, we are 100% Ortlieb in this tour.
Since Thailand is one hour behind Malaysia, we planned to leave early.
Daybreak starts at 06:00am and seeing as it is, our priority was to get food.
We found a decent place for breakfast and also witnessed the giving of alms by the residents of Songkhla to their local monks..
After a good fill, we rolled out towards the Songkhla ferry terminal
This is roughly about 3km away and when we got there, we found out that the service begins as early as 05:00am.
From this point, we have about 80km to cover.
As we cleared the bay area in Songkhla, we rode towards Sathing Phra.
This is the first town along the way.
Bit-by-bit, we covered about half the journey.
The day, as it seems was rather gloomy. We took advantage of the cool weather to progress as far as we could.
With Sathing Phra in sight, we took a break at a local stall and had some refreshments.
There were a lot of petrol stations with convenience stores along this route.
Somewhere up the road, we took another break and when I entered the convenience store, there was a promotion at the counter.
A piece of croissant and a pack of milk was sold at 12 baht.
That was cheap!
From Sathing Phra, we kept a lookout for the junction to Ranot.
Here, there's a crossroad between two towns, Ranot and Nakhon Si Thammarat which is another 100km away.
Slowly, but surely, we passed the junction to Ranot and decided to check out a local motel.
Roger's indication was a signboard with the numbers "24" inscribed on it.
He obtained this information from the internet by reading up journals from "Crazy Guy on a Bike".
We checked out the motel that charges 380 baht for a night.
I wasn't satisfied and insisted that we pushed towards town..
the residents of Songkhla to their local monks..
After a good fill, we rolled out towards the Songkhla ferry terminal
This is roughly about 3km away and when we got there, we found out that the service begins as early as 05:00am.
From this point, we have about 80km to cover.
As we cleared the bay area in Songkhla, we rode towards Sathing Phra.
This is the first town along the way.
Bit-by-bit, we covered about half the journey.
The day, as it seems was rather gloomy. We took advantage of the cool weather to progress as far as we could.
With Sathing Phra in sight, we took a break at a local stall and had some refreshments.
There were a lot of petrol stations with convenience stores along this route.
Somewhere up the road, we took another break and when I entered the convenience store, there was a promotion at the counter.
A piece of croissant and a pack of milk was sold at 12 baht.That was cheap!
From Sathing Phra, we kept a lookout for the junction to Ranot.
Here, there's a crossroad between two towns, Ranot and Nakhon Si Thammarat which is another 100km away.
Roger's indication was a signboard with the numbers "24" inscribed on it.
He obtained this information from the internet by reading up journals from "Crazy Guy on a Bike".
We checked out the motel that charges 380 baht for a night.
I wasn't satisfied and insisted that we pushed towards town..
SIGNS: The gang chilling out at aroad sign enroute to Ranot from Songkhla. There are many layby areas for cyclists to refill their water bottles.
WELCOME TO SONKGKHLA: The writer with a trailer.