Falling Apart

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Everything started to fall to hell at this point.  Leaving the travel agent I realized I lost my hoodie, not good, it has been cold and I basically lived in that hoodie for the last month.  I also agreed to do the tuk tuk scam.  There are several stores in Bangkok that offer tuk tuk drivers free gas to bring customers to their store.  It is more of a game I knew what was going on and so did everyone else but I played the game.  Then back to Ko San Road to look for the hoodie.  I found it.  After breakfast I just got up and walked away without it.  It really annoys me when I do stupid things like that. Another clue that I am not in my right head.  Is getting to rainbow as soon as possible worth this?
And another night bus.  I will say it is rather easy to sleep on the third night bus in a row.  I decided to only go to Chumphon instead of all the way to Ranong and get a guest house.  It’s time.  Unfortunately this was not a regular night bus that drives all through the night and you arrive at 6am.  No no this bus arrived at 3 am.  What the hell am I supposed to do at 3 am?  All the guest houses were closed so I couldn’t get a room if I wanted one.  Luckily the shuttle driver knew he couldn’t just leave me on the side of the road so he took me to the bus station that opened in 5 hours!  Oh well what can you do?  I went and bought a yogurt at 7-11 for breakfast, wait did I have dinner, maybe it was dinner or afternoon tea?  My schedule is all screwed up. 
There was a bus at 4 so I didn’t have to sit on the bench all night.  When I got to Ranong (at 6 am) I was exhausted but so close I couldn’t stop now (stubborn remember).  I took a motorbike taxi in to town and when I got off I did the classic, don’t do this when you ride a bike thing, I touched the muffler and burned my calf.  Just keep going don’t stop now.  I needed a mosquito net, anyone know how to say that in Thai?  Me either.  I ended up drawing a picture and he knew exactly what I was talking about.  Now on to Rainbow.  I was close enough that everyone knew about the gathering so I just had to ask for a bus to rainbow and they knew where to drop me off.  As usual with a gathering the local community has the opportunity to make money from our various needs.  There were 5 motorbikes waiting for the next customer and the prices were set.