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Tuesday 18 of october 2016

 

Farang bababobo I am ! 150 kilometers with my MTBike today;

Went to Udon to see if my new cycle shoes arrived from Bangkok ...

Yes, size 11.5   Not a normal size in Thailand, so ...:sorry: I must order, phone to Bangkok..

Bo pen yang do ..I shot some photos during my trip

All photos with Olympus TG 860

 

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Mercedes in Udon Thani , not far from Makro , same side of the rd

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 Thursday 20 of october 2016

 

A sunny and hot  day ,

73 km with my MTBike ans a few photos .. All with Olympus TG 860

I like/love my 21 mm !

We, the truck and I , were at a red light on rd 22;

I'm , maybe less than one meter from it

 

 

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On the route coming back home in a PTT benzine station

 

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Arriving in my village for lunch, here ... kraphao mou kai dao and a big Coke ( 1,25 l ) for 65 baht .

 

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Yesterday friday 21 of october 2016 , went to Nikhom Nam Un - 103 km on the bike; sunny, too much ..

Drank much water and sodas and shot a few photos

 

A big one, maybe 20 cm long

 

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Our countryside ... Beautiful , I like it

 

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A pink/red dragonfly; the first time I can see something like that

 

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 About 2 km before arriving Nikhom Nam Un, a marriage ; and I can say they were drinking not only water ..

( I have read some french newspaper - Ouest France - where they write " it's forbidden to sell alcool to thai people because the death of our King )

 

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A cyclist I will over past in a few seconds ..

 

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Another dragonfly, this one is brown

 

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All photos with Olympus TG 860

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Monday 23 of october 2016

 

Today no bicycle;

Iwent to Udon to buy new shoes for cycling with my MTBike;

 

Exustar size 46 ( french ) 12 ( US men ) 11 ( UK ) and 29,5 ( Japan ) :stoner: ; why all these different sizes ?

I thought they were more expensive than the price I paid : 2250 baht = 58 euros .

 

Two photos today;

one in Udon downtown , a old, maybe very old Isuzu

 

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And one on the road to return home ; is that a mobil-home ? :giggle::giggle:

 

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Olympus TG 860

 

 

 

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Yesterday , tuesday 25 of october 2016 ;

 

I like to watch what Google Map can show to us and sometimes we can have some surprises ..

For example roads , buildings which doesn't exist ...

And so many roads with no number : " rural road no name " :post-4641-1156694606: ;

 

I cannot understand why they cannot take example , ( not copy but work like Michelin people was working so many years ago ..) 

on Michelin yellow maps 1/200,000 * , where we have all the roads, even those in ground ;

 

So, I wanted to discover  " Our Lady of Miraculous Medal "; it's a catholic church in the countryside, close the big lake Nam Un , not very far from Phangkhon in Sakhon Nakhon province .

 

https://www.google.co.th/maps/@17.2844278,103.722547,18z

 

When on main rd 227 ,I found the rural road to go there

 

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About 1km on that rd, a beautiful Wat door

 

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At the end of the rd, The village where is the church, ;

didn't found it but had a beautiful view on Nam Un

 

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Continuing that rural rd ; beautiful one but cannot see on Google Map which one ..

It's strange how they make these maps ...

Just before arriving on rural rd 3032, another Wat door;

I think the Wat is deserted since a long time ..

 

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Lunch at the beginning of Phangkhon ;

and much rain on the rd 22 coming back home

 

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110 kilometers; yes, I know, I'm bababobo :giggle:

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On Google Map there is a second road to come at the top of Phupalek;

I went many times there, never saw the beginning of that second road ..

So today I tried to find it and I had the answer ...:stoner:

 

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Don't know where these stairs are going to ...:giggle:

 

Found another very little (foot)path, it stops about 300 meters far on the house of a monk .

 

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One of the building of the Wat

 

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Another little lake which is invisible on Google map

 

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Bad red road is beginning

 

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As I write often ...Be careful when trying to make an itinerary with Google Map ;

many roads are like that; it's , here, nearly impossible to pass with a normal pickup , a 4x2 , and impossible with a sedan car

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On Google Map, it's here the beginning of the second road to go at the top of Phupalek ;

there is no road, only a foot path and after about 400 meters, nothing ...:1zgarz5:

 

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If u want to destroy your pickup...

 

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Another little lake , at the bottom, the wat of the Phupalek National Park , nearly at the top of the hill

 

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On 24/10/2016 at 2:16 PM, Assurancetourix said:

Monday 23 of october 2016

 

Today no bicycle;

Iwent to Udon to buy new shoes for cycling with my MTBike;

 

Exustar size 46 ( french ) 12 ( US men ) 11 ( UK ) and 29,5 ( Japan ) :stoner: ; why all these different sizes ?

I thought they were more expensive than the price I paid : 2250 baht = 58 euros .

 

Two photos today;

one in Udon downtown , a old, maybe very old Isuzu

 

29899900084_a2cd3ba33d_b.jpg

 

And one on the road to return home ; is that a mobil-home ? :giggle::giggle:

 

29899903684_f9ecfb44ac_b.jpg

 

Olympus TG 860

 

 

 

If I'm not wrong it says SELL CHEAP so maybe this can be something to use as a summer house. Buy a piece of land and, viola, we have a summer house. I love the pictures and the area. I never manage to give the landscape any justice with my pictures. Very hard to get a beautiful landscape to look good on pictures. 

 

But you seems to have mastered the art, at least on some of your pictures.

 

Maybe I should buy the summer house, and the truck and we have a camping mobile

 

May I ask you if you ever see any wild life on your trips? Like deer etc.

 

Seems to be a beautiful way to kill the day. But I have never seen much of wild life here in Thailand. An elephant, a few deer and a bear. Of course plenty birds, but mammals? 

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