Resurrecting this thread.........
Normally, when Mrs. T heads back to the home village for a special occasion, she hires a minibus with driver - that way, she can take half of her family / mates up there and load up with specian rice and Samut Somkran Pla Too on the way back..............I avoid these trips.
This time last week, Mrs. T departed for a 5 day sojourn for a relative who was becoming a monk. This time she used her Captiva (Which has Sat-Nav in Thai) and she's now safely back home - but not without getting lost on the way up there and in Bangkok on her way back.
She took her nephew (Who can also drive) with her - to share the driving and the navigating. They are both very good drivers and I have no problem with them driving me around - but they have absolutely zero sense of direction when outside of Hua Hin / Cha Am
Having departed at around 05.00 in the morning, I got a phone call at about 11.00. They were lost - somewhere in Khao Yai National Park................
To be fair - the nephew was brought up in Suphanburi - which might as well be the moon if you are travelling up to Korat.
'How do I get out of here?' I was asked - bearing in mind that Khao Yai is a bloody big place I had no idea other than to tell her to find a sign to Pak Chong, hang a right and head up the friendship highway.....(See my previous posting on this thread). They arrived 'home' at 23.00 - 18 hours on the road - no doubt aided and abetted by 6 stops for som tam.
They came back on Sunday - left 'home' at 09.00. I got a call at 17.30 - they were in BKK somewhere - having dropped somebody off. 'How do we get on to the express-way and what sign to follow? Where are you? says I....
Bangkok says she ........What part of Bangkok says I..........
Anyway - back home 00.30 Sunday morning with the specian rice and the Pla Too
This weekend - there will be another demand on my part for the Sat-Nav to get used.............I live in hope