Out of Bangkok

October 9

So, after a day in Bangkok, I headed to the train station to catch a train down south to Malaysia. The tuk-tuk guy ripped me off, overcharging me and also trying to take me to another train station. Only by yelling "Hualanphong! Hualanphong!" did he catch my drift. I was in a sour mood. Then, I found out that the only opening on a train was leaving at 3:50 pm. It was 8:15 a.m. So, I bought the ticket and headed back to downtown to eat, to use the internet and to read.

The train was quite simple, but functional; though we had only a ceiling fan to cool us down, the weather and the breeze was quite comfortable. My seat-mate was a college student named Manit, who turned out to be an even bigger Otaku than I was. What a strange world. The scenery of country-side Thailand was gorgeous, and at night the landscape was punctuated by the lightning storm.