We are going on another road trip tomorrow

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

We are going to have a partial lifting of restrictions here tomorrow 

So we are going ahead with our planned trip that had to be postponed. 

We will be driving up to Chiang Mai, then doing to Mae Hong son loop.

Paul jnr is already in Bangkok, so we will start off with a 120Km taxi ride to his apartment there, and set off on Tuesday morning, after the obligatory One Night in Bangkok 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Hong_Son_Province

 

Jnr and I will be sharing the driving, but it will mostly be me, cos' he is addicted to his phone 

 

Tee shirt and camera at the ready 

[AdamR]

I bl**** love Chiang Mai. Highly recommend heading up towards Doi Suthep if you're allowed up there and have time. Great strawberry juice available all along the roadside, and the air gets cooler and cleaner the higher you go. Have fun and look forward to the pics!

[Steve (stevel)]

Sounds awesome Paul, after our chat last week sounds ltike you will be much safer than any roadtrips here in the Uk.

Steve 

 

 

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

Today we arrived in Bangkok ready to start our trip tomorrow.

The first leg to  Sukhothai starts at 10am tomorrow.

 

 

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

Leg one completed 255 miles, the temperature at times reached 36c 😎

 

 

Sukhothai is the ancient capital of Thailand and is a World heritage site, so we visited some old ruined temples, sorry no cars.

 

 

 

 

 

[Jim RS]

Place looks deserted, are you sure you are allowed out, were they all keeping clear of the foreigner lol?

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

Everywhere is deserted, no tourists anywhere.

We are just a couple of refugees fleeing the persecution of covid in our own country

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

The roads you find when you haven't got you Westfield.

Today we drove from Sukhothai to Chom Thong 156 miles.

 

When we got here we visited a Temple and a waterfall.

 

 

and found this road.

 

 

[Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator]

Looks great @Paul Hurdsfield don't forget when you get lost just turn your map upside down 😁

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

15 hours ago, marcusb said:

Looks great @Paul Hurdsfield don't forget when you get lost just turn your map upside down 😁

 

Like this you mean?

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

Today's journey looks quite short, but it involved a few detours to, a 4K nature trail in the cloud forest at 7000ft, a waterfall, a couple of Stupas, and the highest point in Thailand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Terry Everall]

Great pics but they have the wrong spelling for "Metres"

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

23 minutes ago, Terry Everall - WSCC Competition Secretary said:

Great pics but they have the wrong spelling for "Metres"

 

Flippin yanks influencing everyone except us 😉

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

Wow the Mae Hong Son loop is like a 600km version of the Nurburgring on steroids.

We are now at Pai about half way round and probably as far north as it goes.

 

 

 

 

[Captain Colonial]

On 04/02/2021 at 14:00, Paul Hurdsfield said:

Flippin yanks influencing everyone except us 😉

Really?  You might want to remember who it was who gave you your nickname. 🤣