Getting Settled in Udon Thani

Today we awoke to a lovely day in Udon Thani, Still getting used to the time difference so pretty hard to get a sleep in (Body clock keeps waking up at 5 am local time). That said we certainly made use of the day and the early start.

After going for a ride on our trusty steed's to our favorite laundry lady in Udon to drop off the smelly travel clothes we headed to Central Plaza (Big Shopping Center) for a spot browsing and to get help loading our mobiles / modem with plenty of data for the time in Thailand.

At 10 am Chris headed off to the local dentist to get a much needed filling. Whilst the quote from a dentist back home was approx 440 AUD for the work, ended up paying the lovely Udon dentist 40 AUD for the same work! Bargain!

After the drilling and filling and with half a numb mouth we headed over to see our good friend Amarin to say hello and get some adjustments made to the bikes. After some tinkering we were good to go, or so we thought :)

After returning to the hotel we headed for the spa centre and spent some time relaxing in the Sauna / Spa's. Feeling very refreshed we headed back to the room for some well deserved bludging, tis a hard life. :)

After a spot of KFC for lunch (Chilli Cheese Chicken which nearly blew our heads off) we began slipping into a coma (As you do after eating KFC) and again decided to head back to the hotel to chill out.

Later in the day we went browsing the shops and generally just enjoying being back in Thailand. With stomach's grumbling, later we headed to the T Bar Restaurant which was highly rated on Trip advisor. On the way there on the highway David changed his bike into Sixth gear and found he could not shift back down (Stuck in 6th gear which isn't great at traffic lights). The reviews for the T Bar were great and  certainly weren't wrong, the food was awesome and the service and atmosphere just as good. After another head exploding chilli thai sensatiom.

On the way back to the hotel we found David could get into 4th gear but now lower. All you need in Thai/Laos traffic. The problem seemed to stem from when David crashed the bike a few years ago and whilst it mostly lasted last years fix, turns our it has now givven up and just doesn't want to change gears. (Can't get lower than 4th gear).

Tomorrow we will be dropping David's bike back to Mr Moto to pull the gearbox apart and replace whatever is required to get it back running normally. Hopefully we can make this happen before we leave for Laos on thursday, thankfully we are very confident in Amarin's abilities and should have no issues. David then headed to bed whilst Chris decided to go out for a late night ride through Udon. (Trying to stay up late to allow me to sleep in and wakeup at a normal hour.

Thanks for tuning in and for the support from all, we really appreciate it and so you know we are having an absolute blast so far! Keep the good times coming!