{"id":12454,"date":"2014-03-13T15:03:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T15:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=12454"},"modified":"2014-03-13T15:03:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T15:03:59","slug":"baan-grood-to-chumpon-beach-on-geoffs-se-asia-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=12454","title":{"rendered":"Baan Grood to Chumpon Beach on Geoff&#8217;s SE Asia tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-12456\" alt=\"1-IMG_8395-001\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_8395-001-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>I managed a really great early start today leaving as the dawn broke just after 6am, the first two hours are bliss, lovely and cool. I stopped for a lovely roadside breakfast in Bang \u00a0Saphan and then pressed on as today was going to be long due to the distance of 70 miles+, the undulating conditions and most difficult of all THE HEAT!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-12457\" alt=\"1-IMG_1132\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1-IMG_1132-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>In Thung Maha I was dying of thirst but, reminding me of Cambodia, \u00a0there was no where selling cold drinks in the village, so I continued up the hill \u00a0where I spied a &#8216;western&#8217; style shop so I pulled in and much to my amazement two English ladies with their Bangkok hire bikes were sat outside! \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.viaventure.com\">Becky<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetravelfoundation.org.uk\">Julie <\/a>are doing an independent cycling trip \u00a0to Phuket, they had also met up with The Grasshoppers previously so we had a good little chat before they set of leaving me to my Sprites \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I bumped into the ladies again at a roadside stall selling water melons, which was handy as one huge melon is too much for me but for 3 is ideal. But my word what an ordeal getting the seller to give me the price! In the end I had to get my notebook (a gift from Sally) out so she could write the price in!<\/p>\n<p>The day got hotter and the hills bigger by the time I reached Pathio I was in danger of overheating! However, a Tesco\/Lotus store hoved into view which I dashed into the icy cold AC, cold ice cream &amp; drinks \ud83d\ude42 when I came out I noticed a Amazon coffee shop so I disappeared into there too for a blueberry smoothies! Delicious and soooo cold.<\/p>\n<p>I bumped into B&amp;J again who were severely overheated! so in my fresh state I kept going. As I was cycling along the beachside in Chumpon beach, trying to find somewhere to stay, \u00a0who should shout me but <a href=\"http:\/\/grasshopperadventures.com\/\">The Grasshopper grou<\/a>p from yesterday! They had only ridden 60km or so and then travelled in the van. However, they had seen trained monkeys collecting coconuts \ud83d\ude42 So I joined them at the Chumphon Cabana Resort<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my surprise when at dinner Becky &amp; Julia joined us so 3 customers had garnered 3 leeches \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;m off to the islands probably ending up in Ko Sameui before continuing the cycling from Don Sak<\/p>\n<p>Here is todays 70 mile Strava<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/120228286\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12455\" alt=\"Baan_Grood_to_Chumpon___Strava_Ride\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Baan_Grood_to_Chumpon___Strava_Ride-1024x392.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a>and a <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/+GeoffJones47\/albums\/5990228410640131537\">few photos here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed a really great early start today leaving as the dawn broke just after 6am, the first two hours are bliss, lovely and cool. I stopped for a lovely roadside breakfast in Bang \u00a0Saphan and then pressed on as today was going to be long due to the distance of 70 miles+, the undulating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-south-east-asia","category-travel-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}