To not repeat our mistake in regards to the tropical heat, we set the alarm clock for sunrise this morning. Luckily still being somewhat close to the equator, sunrise is at 6.30am which isn’t even too bad. So we got up, packed our tent away and drove off in search of breakfast.

no words, just gawk

The Hat Chao Mai National Park is really pretty, even along the road. We stopped to take some pictures on a bridge because the water looked amazing in the early morning light. About 100 meters behind the bridge, we found a row of food stalls, many of which were already open. So we sat down at a table in the sand, ordered fried rice, decadently rich Chai tea and enjoyed our view. The limestone cliffs offshore make for such an interesting coast line.

Again, we were having problems with Rocinante’s electronics. This lead to us to doing little hops between shops,hoping to find a hard ware store somewhere. Flo needed contact cleaner spray as he detected that the battery was having troubles as well. Along the road, we found a mall which had EVERYTHING so we even got to replace the missing electrical tape from way back when.

Bonebreaker on the scooter, but no match for battle hardened Rocinante.

From here on out, we came to familiar territory soon. Having spent a special holiday around Ao Nang already, the scenery around Krabi looked like home. We waved to the airport as we passed. Since the bike hadn’t been with us on the holiday, we decided to stay another night at the Discovery Resort to give Flo the opportunity to see how Rocinante performs on the roads that nearly killed my spine on a scooter.

Arriving at the resort, no one was there. Or at least no one we knew. A quick phone call later saw Dah and another staff member return. Big smiles and waves when they saw us but still only

I’m getting good at taking the fairings off …

a 200 baht discount per night. Buh hoo. This made it rather expensive but we still stayed for the night. Arriving at our destination so early gave Flo time to work on the bike again. AGAIN everything came off, got cleaned and the contact spray was used. Two things might have possibly been the culprit: One washer was missing on the battery side of things which might have resulted in a bad grounding or a connector near the impact site form the fall recently was bad, as it had burn marks from having sparked multiple times. Fixing both seems to have done the trick, Rocinante started reliably again. Fingers crossed! But actually, the starting process sounds better already so we are hopeful.

Otherwise, the day was uneventful; filled with jumping into the swimming in the pool, catching up on the blog, one more dish of fried vegetables with cashew nuts and a movie in the evening. 🙂