we are back in isan and we're on a road trip today
we're leaving sisiket we're going to go to yasathon and then at the end of the video we're
going to end up in a place called royet three provinces today and i just want to apologize
about the last video if you saw i kind of i was at my wit's end i'm just been suffering lately from
creative burnout a little bit of travellers fatigue and i've been suffering with unfortunately
travellers belly aka diarrhea in fact if you're wondering why i'm just in the side
of the middle of nowhere here it's because you know toilet roll and stops at the back of a bush
are a thing at the moment for me which is not good but that happens when you travel and you
know we're out here in the countryside where the food is spicy and it just it's just not
sitting well with me however don't worry about that because we're coming on an adventure today
now i thought i'd throw on my little red checkered shirt i never really wear this anymore and i
don't know why because it's my lucky charm me and dreamy never have a bad day when i'm wearing this
so we've thrown it on today because we're having another adventure we're just gonna have a positive
attitude today aren't we dreaming yep see so strap in and let's have another adventure in nissan
so
beep
we are here in the yasathon province and we're at the main the number one tourist attraction
or site of interest in this province which is a beautiful lake with a nice view
and as you can hear the birds are chirping but there are two interesting statues the first is
a traditional naga it's a very important uh spiritual image in buddhism and he's always
um spraying water or near the river or the mere kang sometimes near the ocean we saw many of these
on our trips in paella lake uh and some of the provinces here in isan along the mere kong and if
i remember rightly i've seen it a few times in the south and the second one and way more interesting
is this one behind me here it's a giant toad so every single province that i've traveled to
has an animal that's the theme or the provincial animal and you see them normally at traffic lights
just all over the towns and cities and sometimes it's peacocks and sometimes it's tigers and
sometimes it's horses and uh here in the as-a-thon i think it's the toad and they've got this huge
big red toad and you can actually pay money to go in and get a look at the view from the mouth
um because i'm not really bothered i've flown the drone and i've had the perspective
and it's nice but uh yeah i don't think we'll go in
check out check out these ladies and gentlemen and cows they're doing some sort of procession
and what i've found on my research on i think i'm doing like a masters theses in thailand
oh it feels like it anyway but what i've learned is i've i thought central thailand was gonna be
where they were just just vast endless rice fields and nothing really going on but that turned out to
be actually full of lots of interesting things and incredible national parks waterfalls ancient
cities and plenty of history and you know immense amounts of culture however out here in
this particular area for the last few four or five provinces in isan you can tell that this is just
open space used for growing food and crops so if you don't mind i think i'm going to take dreaming
to the garage i need i've got a little i've got a problem with dreamy i just want to check something
and we'll get some lunch and then we'll get them back on the road because it's another two and a
half hours through probably even more beautiful endless rice and fields to get to royette
okay so this is the honda shop there's a honda shop in every town every big
town across thailand basically and this one's really nice look how big the mechanical area is
so they normally have the shop that you see all the motorbikes where they sell and everything
but if you go down the side or around the back every single one has a has a garage
and normally like now i just drive in and say hey dreamy's may be broken can you take a look at her
so they're going to take a look and then we'll find out what's wrong but i think the oils run out
yeah so the oils run out they always say in thai matlayo which means it's finished or it's
gone i was wondering why i thought to myself oh maybe the oil leak has fixed itself no the oil
has run out and if you remember when we were in utaitani i'd done a 700 kilometer drive from samui
and i had been leaking oil the entire time and then the next day the engine blew up oh no oh no
oh no so what i'm doing now is i'm coasting along i'm like going 70 miles an hour i'm not going full
speed just keeping her as happy as can be just making sure that when she's leaking oil and when
she's not we bring her to the honda and we say hey i don't think there's any oil in our engine
so with dreamy having her fill of oil it was time for me to have my full of food and i found
this nice little cafe in the town center and i smashed a cream cheese and ham bagel
a really naughty marshmallow and white chocolate cookie don't tell anyone
and then i just got back on the road it was another three hours to roy ette
the countryside in isan as beautiful as it is you know i'm learning that i need
extra stimulation than just rice fields i need mountains i need clouds i need drama
i need i need coastlines i need limestone cliffs just to keep these drives interesting
it's just flat and country roads you have to be careful for potholes and animals and
you have to go slowly and so just driving from town to town is taking all day every day and i
just feel like all i seem to be doing here in nissan is driving on flat straight roads
and so i was really happy when i got to royet because they had a huge quite impressive tower
in the middle of the city and let me just take a look it's an interesting looking tower isn't it
kind of got that concrete center part and then almost looks like a a windpipe
what's that instrument called you know that windpipe where they blow into it see this
is what happens when you drive a mobile all day every day your brain just turns to mashed potato
there it is the trusty oil leak that's what we like to see okay
at least we know there's oil in the engine i'll just rest up a little bit but then yeah
we'll go check out the tower and the surrounding area of the city center and see what we can find
okay this is exactly typical of the kind of room that i get normally if i just come and show you
twin or double plug socket aircon telly that i never use mini fridge to keep the
water and the beer in from seven and then i haven't got the key card in there but
yeah you know a crappy little shower that barely has any pressure that's the typical
paddy room there is a balcony but you can't go in there it's just a weird thing and annoyingly it's
four o'clock in the afternoon so the whole day i've been on the on the bike you know google maps
says two hours i let you know two or three hours to what it was and then an hour and two you know
whatever i don't know my brain's fried um but all day on the bike and all we've seen is a toad so
isan come on like let's let's let's have some things to do and see that would be nice
money
oh scary it's cool that you can do this
ah it's pretty pretty high hi you didn't get a really good view to be honest
of the city there's a really nice lake wow that's beautiful you can see the temple grounds
and then vastness green feels don't look right down otherwise you get really oh
no
not much to see on this side
apparently it's not the top apparently there's another level so we're just going up this
lavender staircase ah this is more like it fresh air you can really feel that cool breeze oh look
oh it's so girls you probably don't get the same feeling as guys but our balls go inside ourselves
oh when we look down like i mean maybe girls have a similar thing just not with their balls
oh
oh no no i don't want to do it anymore i'm good i'm good
50 baht though you can't go wrong with that that's that oh no
it's giving me the willies as we say it's giving me the willies the tower thumbs up for the tower
and uh let's go let's go have a walk around this lake like i said but check out these guys
this is what i love most about just being in a different town
every other day or day it's coming into the middle you know with the park
oh i was fully expecting these pigeons to just move out of the way
but they were just like no we're not moving
okay i think i'm going to end the video here i've had a lovely day to be fair on the bike
just too many hours in between each village and if you had a car it would take you an hour an
hour an hour but for me it takes three takes three takes three and then tomorrow i'm gonna wake up
and we're gonna continue the journey to callison it's been a long week it's been a long few weeks
i i don't know when i think it was after
after i finished the north and i spent a week in loy
and i was busy writing the e-book of northern thailand
i kind of had a spring in my step again but i don't know what's happened recently i just feel
like a lot i feel far away from everything and everyone
lovely jubbly
so