South Thailand ride: Padang Besar and Ranong, September 2025

[To write: a few lines about this trip]

Friday 19 September 2025

📍 Hometown Hostel

Spent the night at this little hostel. Cozy place, very nice people!

Saturday 20 September 2025

Another nice night. Very friendly staff. Free breakfast.

Sunday 21 September 2025

Visiting a new area for a few days. 3 long days of scooter riding. I'll add pictures when I get them 😁

Tuesday 23 September 2025

Got a little sun and wind burn coming here. So I picked up protection 😁

📍 Padang Besar, Malaysia

Wednesday 24 September 2025

A little sightseeing, day 1 Padang Besar to the sea.

Thursday 25 September 2025

Another day enjoying nature's beauty.

Saturday 27 September 2025

😅🤣🤣🤣

Sunday 28 September 2025

Made it to Krabi, last 100 km in the rain. Rain forecast all week. Who's stupid idea was this? A road trip, on a bike, in the rain.

Monday 29 September 2025

📍 Pinthira Resort

A warm shower, a dry bed. What I needed after a long drive in the rain. With good luck, two more days to Pattaya

Thursday 2 October 2025

A day late, but i made it back to Pattaya.

Ranong was beautiful, and very wet. My phone wouldn't charge, water in the charging port. I went and found a wireless charger.

Tuesday morning I aimed for Cha am beach in the rain.

About 50 km into the ride, my Samsung couldn't take the wind and rain.

So much for finding a hotel. Headed on, to Pattaya, 500 km away. I did pretty well, until I took a wrong turn in Bangkok, wrong thing to do with no map. 😅🤣, eventually got on the right roads. And off I sped.

Pattaya by 1 am. And then tired all day. My phone dried out, helped by a friend to get it restarted. Now back to normal insanity for a while.