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Planning a Trip
October 20, 2007 |
This morning we again motored in to Putthaisong. This time to visit the charming ladies at the Honda dealership to pick up the licence plate and registration book for the Honda Click.
The motosai is running just fine and we have now clocked 850km on it. I was initially a little bit worried about it not having much space under the seat. When I had my little 50cc Scooter when I was living in Oslo, that’s where I put my groceries. Very practical.
However the Honda Click has a hook on the steering column where you can hang your shopping bags. And I like the “floor” space too. No problem bringing home a case of beer, just put it on the floor. I can also fit a bag there if I wan’t to go long distance. And we do plan such a trip once the kitchen is finished.
Last week Big C, which is a chain of huge supermarkets opened in Buri Ram. It’s about 1 to 1 1/2 hours drive from here. And they have farang foods. So it’s time to go down there and stock up. We’ll go with both the motosais. And bring back whatever we can fit on them. The scary part here is that I have a strong suspicion that Nan’s idea of how much stuff you can safely load on a Motosai differ widely from my perception.
Anyway it’s going to be nice if we can find some cheese, and I need leek for a special dish I have been craving for weeks now. And not to mention something to put on a sandwich.
Nan cooks three hot meals a day. But I have to admit that hot food for breakfast is a little bit too much. I’d rather have a sandwich with some cheese and or ham on it.
I have yet to find a stove also. They had some models at Home Pro in Korat, but at 30000 baht I was thinking thats a litle bit stiff. You can buy a new Honda Wave motosai for that money. So if anyone can recommend a place to buy a stove, preferably electric, with 3-4 gas cookers on top for less than that, then please give me a heads up.
I wan’t it for baking bread, making pizza and for the odd lasagna. (no worries Dago, I do not put ketchup in my lasagna, my spaghetti on the other hand…).
Okay, that’s it!
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Wew, I got a bit worried there….
Hey one word on the storage space on the motorsai…..SADDLEBAGS…… I have always told the wimmin in my life at any given time ” This bag is yours and that one is mine,if you cant fit everything you need for the trip in your saddlebag,you aint goin”……maybe that’s one of the reasons I have these wimmin trouble?????
Saddlebags are a great idea. I was thinking of buying one of them boxes to put on the back there. But saddle bags are easier to take on and off as I need them. And you can still seat a passenger.
How about a trailer….lol….I know it sounds nuts but whenever mama & papa want to haul a load of stuff she sits on the crossbar of the Thai wheelbarrow (2 wheeled steel cart type thing) and he steps on the gas. I wouldn’t reccomend a 3 hour round trip on both Motorsai, before we bought a pick-up we used to get the bus in and out of the city from the main road and a friend with a pick-up would take us from there to the village. Thats if I couldn’t persuade the pick-up guy to go all the way, so to speak…lol…but it normally depends if they have a licence and insurance, they won’t go on the main road without them as they are scared of getting nabbed by the police.
ps….we bought a perfectly good gas cooker from Home Pro for 18k. You said that you know about electrics so you need to make sure “the hut” has a big enough supply and Amp incomer to run an electric oven.
No probs Tony, Next is to rip out every wire in “the hut” and replace the whole system. We got 1 - one fuse and three electrical outlest in the whole place. Well, the typical setup with a main fuse, a big circuit breaker, three outlests under that and then 3 switches.
So I’ll make sure the new wiring is dimensioned for a stove in the kitchen and running a washing machine in the bathroom.
The trailer idea is just to insane lol
But yeah I have seen it done, and been using the same cart thing as one to haul sand and gravel around the house for the last three days.
But I think hooking one up to a motosai and go to buriram with it is a bit over the top he he.
Anyway, I aired the idea of just motosai into Putthaisong and take the bus, but Nan want’s to go by Motosai. So thats what we’ll do. It should be a good adventure to write about here, and I wan’t to know how these little rice cookers hold up on a longer trip.
I’ve done crazier things before
OK you crazy fools but take care, nahhhh! Just one more idea that i’ve used before when we had too much shopping and I would have had to join Cirque du Soleil to be able to bring it home!….That is we took the motorsai to town and back but we put the shopping on the bus and picked it up again where the main road meets the village rd….just another option. Don’t forget to figure in at least one air con unit to your sparky calcs, you never know you might need it one day….did you get your electric hooked up yet?
We got electricity allright. But as described above.
We are getting in an electrician to redo it all, and get some contact points set up, plus light in the bath room, outlet for shaver and for the washing machine in the bathroom. Then for toaster, microwave and electric oven + lights in the kitchen.
Right now it’s extension cables everywhere.
I have trouble finding a fuse box or circuit breaker box though. But hoping the electrician will be able to help once he see my drawings.
One thing for sure. We are NOT getting Somchai from the village to do this. Even if the wife is saying “He do many times before”.
Ammong other things she felt that grounding in the bath room was uneccesary becouse “we do not do in Thailand”.
So for once I set my foot down, he he
Damn, it sounds like you’re building a Norwegian home when it comes to electricity. Do fetch some 63A main fuse also! And electrical heaters & ac boxes all over the house
Well, I believe when it comes to electricity, we are the only ones in the whole world that does it right. Well, we have to with our wooden houses. Electric heaters? How many marbles have you got left in your head!
We will not have AC either. I find that a fan is enough for me. But it reminds me that we need electricity for the ceiling fan over the bed and in the living room too. Aaargh!
Okay, I begin to see why the folks sold the house and got themselves an appartment instead…lol
Rune, a tour pac is a good idea also for the scooter. I think you can get one that hangs past the passinger seat so you can still pack a rider.
Man them electrics make me kringe everytime I look at how they wire houses there. If I built a house there I would have to have all the RX sent from America and do it American style.
Good luck, the hut is slowly transforming into your castle.
Dago, next time I go to town, I’ll drop in at Honda and see what I can find. We also need to get the exhaust pipe for Nan’s Honda wave changed, as it sounds like the sky is falling down when she rides it trough the village.
But parts for those are so cheap, I wonder why they actually bother with taking any money for it at all.