Day 70 Free again

13/05/13
Free! At least for another 2 weeks. I had set my alarm early and went straight to the bus station. The bus to Satun took 3.5 hours so it was coming up to midday when I arrived, wasting no time I found a motorbike taxi and explained I wanted to go to the border to get my visa stamped, he seemed to understand. He obviously hadn't as he took me to the port where I could wait 3 hours and get a boat across to a Malaysian island get my passport stamped then get a boat back. I asked him where the nearest border crossing was, the one I wanted in the first place. It was 30km away, he charger 10 Baht (23p) per km and I have to say it wasn't worth even half that. It was my worst motorbike experience so far, it even beat me coming off and riding in torrential rain, the reason was that he had never heard of personal space (or if he had then he certainly was gay..). I spent the whole journey sitting on/over the handrail because he was sitting so far back, if I hadn't been his arse would've been in my crotch. The only time when I have seen somebody sit as far back as me was when there was 5 people on a bike, my driver was just being antisocial/gay. The actual visa renewal was very straight forward, just a stamp out, stamp in and out of Malaysia and a stamp back into Thailand. The journey back to Satun was just as uncomfortable as the way and it was a relief to get off the bike. I asked around for a place to pick the bus up from back to Trang but nobody seemed to know/understand, I did find a guy who spoke some English and he pointed down the road at a bus disappearing in the distance, he proceeded to get his phone out and said the bus was coming back after his call ended, 5 minutes later a motorbike taxi turned up and I also found out the bus wasn't coming, in that one action the man totally destroyed the small thread that held Thai humanity in place. I thankfully made it onto the correct bus, with no thanks to any Thai person and I was grateful to get back after such a stressful day. I am very happy that I am leaving this part of the country tomorrow!