So it was visa run time again today, actually this was a bad one, not because it was difficult but because it was the last one I can get away with on my Current non-immigrant B visa from the UK. This means that I have to return to the UK no later than the 1st of September to get a new one. It will have been 15 months since I was last in the UK, and I am not sure I am looking forward too it. Certainly I could do without the cost of the trip.

Anyway, this was my first visa run to Cambodia, and it was easy, it took me 3 hours. I jumped on my motorcycle and rode 65km to the Cambodian border at Chong Chom, spent 30 minutes crossing over and back and then came home to Surin, so much easier than the old Burma visa runs I had to do while I was living on Koh Phangan!

It’s been ages since I updated this blog, and a lot has happened since I last did. Firstly Nuth, Leon and myself undertook a 3,500km journey around Thailand on our sarleng, for those who don’t know what a sarleng is, here is a picture.

We visited many places in Thailand and I will write several blog posts about the trip over the coming week.

The second big thing to happen since my last update, is that we have moved away from Koh Phangan. We now live in Surin, which is a town in the Isaan province of Thailand. We did this for a few reasons, but mostly because we both realised that Koh Phangan has very little in common with Thailand, it’s a westerners playground.

So apart from these two things, life is pretty much the same as before, Leon is growing at an alarming rate and turning into quite a character!

Myself and Nuth got to chatting today, we were looking through my Thailand guide book from a couple of years ago and it was apparent that she hasn’t seen an awful lot of her home country.

I thought about this a little bit and realised I haven’t seen as much as I would have liked too either. So and idea started to form. On the way back from lunch we popped into the local metalworkers and asked how much it would cost to have one of the sidecars they build for scooters made, they are a metal frame and are used to carry cargo or people. I decided the price was good so ordered one. So we are going to take the scooter, with the big add on side frame, and myself, Nuth and little Leon will go on a 6 week tour of Thailand.

I have to say, I’m rather excited!

Another early morning for me, no idea why, Leon and Nuth are still fast asleep, I’m not surprised, Nuth was into the vodka last night whilst watching a movie, she was a little drunk by the time she went to bed, and Leon won’t wake up for an hour or so yet if he follows his usual timetable.

This is actually a nice time to be awake and have the house to myself, I’m sitting on the balcony, a cup of coffee beside me, laptop on the small table, keyboard on my lap. It’s just got light, the birds are waking up and it’s not even sunny yet, so I don’t need a fan pointing at me.

Actually, not having the fan on makes a big difference, when I switch it on it makes the usual fan noise, so it is then not peaceful, right now it’s lovely, but I can already see the sun starting to come up behind the coconut trees, won’t be long until I’m cooking again.