06/09/2009
Early morning there was a bit of a commotion starting with Simon's car alarm going off at 3:45 followed by somebody with a German accent shouting in English, and the sound of something metallic being hit hard. Turned out that the German owner of the hotel had driven back from Bangkok in the late evening, stopped for something to eat and had somebody run into the back of his new pickup truck and drive off.
He was obviously not best pleased with this, drove home and opened a bottle of beer, then another, and by the time we had breakfast at 7:30 he was much the worse, and had inflicted more damage on his pickup truck in the intervening 4 hours.
Drove south for about 6 hours then found a beach location to camp. There is a small cafe about 200m from us but otherwise the beach is desserted. Cold beer is always welcome when the weather is as humid as this, and the seafood stir fry was very good.
Passed the 20000km mark today and dropped to within 9 degrees of the equator. If all goes to plan we cross the equator in Sumatra. Getting exciting.....
Lat 8 53.58 N
Long 99 55.04 E
Distance 20323km
Town Sichon
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