me and dreamy have just finished traveling to 76 of the 77 provinces then it's been a year of
adventures memories ups and downs just like any good old road trip and today this is the final
mini series within the series because we're going to our final province which is phuket
and it's going to take us a couple of weeks to get there and a few videos to do it so i thought why
don't we just start with a chilled video here in bangkok i've got some things to sort out i've got
some bits and bobs to do i've got some people to introduce you to because we're not going to phuket
alone and so i thought it would be very fitting as well to bring back the old intro so roll the
intro and i'll see you back here in bangkok as we prepare for the big road trip to phuket my name
is paddy doyle and this is my little honda dream and welcome to next level adventures
right now we are attempting to visit every single province in thailand
we've had some incredible adventures already but the best part is we're only just getting started
so subscribe and join us as we discover this incredible country together so the first thing we
have to do today is we have to take dreamy to the garage she needs some very urgent repairs because
at the minute i can't drive her at night time we've got some important engine maintenance to do
so the first issue i had to solve was actually a microphone problem as you can hear now hopefully
i am talking to you and it's quite easy to understand me
but recently if i just show you this clip here of just coming back from pattaya to
bangkok i was having mic issues have a listen who wants to go on the noisy boring toll road
thailand by the way one of the highlights of traveling across town and today i did some
testing with my gopro and the media mod and my lavalier mics and i isolated that my lavalier
mic system was broken and that happens on the road luckily i had a spare so i've just switched
the lav mic and now you can hear me much better then what happened okay so dreamy's front light
it just stopped working so i can't drive at night and no it's not just a change of bulb i've changed
the bulb i changed the bulb twice and every time i hit a bump the light goes off so there's some
problem with the wiring so i need that otherwise i can't drive at night it's ridiculously dangerous
and the second thing is it's been 4 000 kilometers since the big um engine build rebuild in bangkok
and so now it's time for an oil change and so i'm taking it back to sms sakhol motorsports
to check the check the light and change the oil and it's about 15 minutes this direction
i've really missed driving in bangkok
it's fun guys it's dangerous yes but as long as you just keep your distance
take it easy
it's quite good fun actually
so the first thing we've done is check the oil so we've drained all of the oil out now
there should be 800 milliliters of oil in there or there was when we first put the oil in uh
about six seven weeks ago about three or four thousand kilometers ago
but now there's only 400 milliliters left so there's either a still a small oil leak or
another issue might be because it's so hot there is a little tube at the back of the engine where
sometimes if the oil boils it spits out and drips and jack told me that that was
normal when an engine overheats these types of engines overheat you do lose
a little bit of oil so we're just hoping that it's not another oil leak and it's more just uh
boiling over in the crazy heat i caught with our mechanics and they just want to know um how many
kilometers have you been uh riding for about four thousand four thousand yes since last time i saw
it right okay so maybe uh are you gonna go for the trip more yeah tomorrow i'm gonna go to phuket's
but i will take it slow so it will take me about two weeks i think they say that the oil came
out about 400 something right yeah what i what i suggest is uh they say that maybe 4 000 kilometers
is too too long or you know one one oil change yeah so it should be okay to get to phuket right
it's okay because the next trip you're gonna be around two thousand more or less than that right
yeah about two thousand support to phuket yeah you know it's not over two thousand
it's gonna be all fine but i think four thousand is maybe too much for for uh dreamy
yeah to hold for like a distance and for some speed that you use thank you jack
something right there don't worry okay okay have a great time have a great time bye
you know don't forget she's 28 years old now dreamy
so her electrics are starting to start to wither she's an old girl so that broke
okay that's weird i changed the light bulb twice so i don't know if the wires are just supplying
it to with too much electricity now uh some kind of weird electrical fault and it's blowing the the
the head beam because i've changed the head beam twice and both times it just
turned off after five minutes so i thought it was more of a problem to do with this
in the last video we got to province 76. so we've done all of the provinces except for one guys we
are almost finished the only province that we have left to check off is phuket if you've been
following along for the past year we've been trying to visit to every single province in
thailand on our little honda dream and we've done it we've done 76 we're almost there
um at the time when i was in the south in surrounding provinces of phuket we just
couldn't get to phuket at the time the vaccine wasn't available and they were trying to keep
phuket isolated and so they just they just shut the bridge and they shut all
thai people foreign people tourists from getting onto phuket and it was really difficult and
impossible basically so i just left it and then by the time that i finally got the vaccine and
thailand everyone got the vaccine and everyone started to chill out a little bit and coverts
gone anywhere everywhere around the country anyway um phuket's open so we can go to phuket now
so that's what we're gonna do tomorrow i leave uh bangkok i've had about three days here of rest
and recuperation after the big eastern ride around thailand and uh i celebrated my birthday with me
with uh miss p she got me a lovely birthday cake which had a picture of me and her on
dreamy but she fell off because if you don't know on our first date
she fell off the back of dreamy and hurt herself and she took it like a champ and in fact she still
thinks it's really funny and so she put it on the cake which was really sweet just waiting for
miss p to come back from zumba class and then we're gonna go shopping because i need to
replace some of my camera equipment and potentially maybe upgrade my camera setup so
the reason why i'm thinking about upgrading as you know i'll show you what camera i have
um the one that i'm filming with right now is the sony zv1 this is my previous one i've done three
i've gone through three of these they're really good um small compact cameras and i used to put
these wide angle adapters on the front of them and they would just help me with getting a wider angle
um but over time this is quite heavy and it breaks the mechanism and i've gone through
three cameras now i can get these repaired i think so i might do that today if i can find a
camera repair shop and just keep these as spares they're 20 000 baht or under so they're about 400
500 no they're more like 600 um which is quite cheap for camera equipment guys actually um and
if you've been enjoying the videos for the past six months that's what i've been filming them on
but i i find it a little bit limiting now that i don't have the wide-angle adapter system on it let
me show you what i mean so this is as wide as the camera can go which is actually not too bad but i
want you to keep an eye on the on the corners up here okay so this is with the widest angle now
this is wide enough this is absolutely fine if i'm vlogging this is fine but the problem is this
is it doesn't have image stabilization so when i'm walking can you see it's all wobbly and it
gives people it makes people feel sick makes me feel sick i can't i can't look at footage
like this it's too shaky right so i have to then press this button which does this you see it's
it's punched in now now now it's got image image stabilization now um it's much more smooth and
that's what i keep it on however you see how zoomed in it is it's like right up against me
and um i just don't you can't even see my full face you can't see much around me and i think
in a vlogging travel setup you want to be able to share what's happening behind you
i like having a wider angle and this camera just doesn't do it unless i put that big
heavy wide angle adapter on which as i've just told you breaks the system eventually
and it takes about two two months and then it just fails from overuse and it's not really designed
it's an after party extension thing so what i was thinking was going to the sony shop today in siam
paragon and having a look at the other cameras i'm not going to be getting a really expensive
ridiculous camera but there's one camera that's a little step up from this where you can have um
you know interchangeable lenses and i might be able to buy a really nice wide angle lens and fix
the problem keep it more professional but don't go crazy with money but it will be a little bit
more expensive than this setup but i'm thinking for my birthday to invest some money into the
channel to get the wide angle back to upgrade the camera quality a little bit and hopefully
just take everything to the slightly next level okay it's a no-go i went to the sony shop
in siam paragon and i've been to zoom camera and big camera here in three different malls today
and the zoni zv e10 camera is completely sold out in the country of thailand
and it has been for several months apparently but that's okay i'm just gonna have to learn to hold
hold the camera further away and not bring it so close like this and it's a good thing it means
i didn't spend money on a camera that i don't necessarily need but just once you know this is
fine for now this is fine and then i went to boots good old boots and stocked up on sun cream and
toothpaste for the trip to phuket and um so we're gonna do a little walk around the park and then at
seven o'clock we're gonna go actually gonna we changed our plan we're gonna go for dinner with
uh michael the gentleman who's coming to phuket with us for dinner we're gonna go to a sri lankan
restaurant called ministry of crab we're gonna go for a nice walk around the park
get our steps in and build up an appetite for tonight's dinner if you've been watching this
channel for a while you'll know that i am quite obsessed with the prom prong area in bangkok
to me it's the best area in bangkok because of this park it's bendji siri right benjamin park
me and miss p come here when we were staying at this hotel we'd come here every morning well not
every morning we'd like to come every morning we tried our best to come every morning before
breakfast and then every evening just to walk or to jog um it's just a nice green space
and there's such an inner beautiful area and you can actually see our building where we're
staying at there you go it's called the hyatt hyatt place um a bit cheaper than staying at the
marriott it was cheap when i was um in bangkok in december it was a thousand baht a night to stay
at the marriott but now it's 3500. everything's kind of gone back to normal now guys to be honest
um but i'll show you in about half an hour this area here will be a big um open workout space for
thai aerobics and it's really fun but yeah this is just the this is my happy place in bangkok park
i can't read this it's too dark
what a delicious dinner we just had a ministry of crab i've actually been to this restaurant before
in sri lanka i didn't realize i had one here in bangkok they have a range of different types of
crabs different types of prawns sri lankan style absolutely delicious and i want to introduce
you to this gentleman so say hello michael hello now michael is a very very long-term
supporter of the channel here at paddy doyle he's when patreon yeah you joined patreon but
how long have you been a subscriber for since the do you remember how many subscribers yeah quick
no i don't anyway it was a long long time ago and over on patreon every month we do like a
zoom call and we have pub quizzes live quiz show stuff like that i can't win yeah have you ever won
no anyway i said to my patreons and my channel members if anybody wanted to come from bangkok
to bouquet if anyone was crazy enough um that it was an open invite and cheeky bastard said yes
yeah so you flew in all the way from los angeles yes wait l.a yeah from l.a
so he's here for a month but he's just going to tag along for the next week or two down to phuket
um we're going to take it slow i'm not i'm not in any rush either of you
so you'll see this cheeky chap in the videos for the next few weeks i would imagine because he's
coming to where we're going tomorrow hua hin then chimpon then koh tao then khao sok
then krabi then railay then panga then maybe phuket we've got a long way to go thanks for
watching the video today and um tomorrow we ride phuket see ya we ride este noche we ride
you