In today's video, I'm gonna go buy a motorcycle helmet, then i'm going to go rent a scooter,
and then iIm going to head over to Route 66!
Yeah that's right Route 66 here in Thailand! And i'm gonna share all the costs with you so let's go
what is going on youtube greetings from my apartment here in Pattaya beach Thailand
in today's video i'm gonna go out and i'm gonna try to find a scooter to rent for the rest of
the month i'm here in Pattaya at some point i'm gonna buy my own but for right now i'm gonna rent
but first i'm gonna go out and buy my own helmet there's a few reasons for that reason number one
i have no idea who's used that helmet probably hundreds of people and i'm a little bit obsessive
compulsive i wouldn't like the idea of putting that thing on my head the second reason is i don't
know if that helmet's been involved in a crash and the integrity has somehow been compromised
i had a really bad motorcycle accident in 2003 and my helmet was cracked it actually saved my life
so i just like the idea of having a helmet that i know has never been in a wreck and the
third reason is i have a long-term visa here in Thailand now i'm planning on buying a motorbike a
motorcycle a high-powered scooter or something to get me around the country so i probably should get
my own helmet anyway and that's what we're gonna do so let's go get that helmet so the motorbike
i'm buying is just for tooling around town max speed 25 maybe 30 miles per hour so i decided to
go over to the big c which is Thailand's version of Walmart and buy a helmet i bought their most
expensive helmet which was 1200 baht so that's between 40 and 50 us dollars in the future when
i have my own motorcycle and i plan on going out on the open road touring Thailand you know going
faster speeds on the highways and things like that i'll definitely buy a more quality helmet
but this one will do me for now i also purchased a phone holder so i would have hands-free access to
google maps okay so the place we're going is actually really close to where i live so i'm in
the grand avenue for those that don't know here in Pattaya and right around this corner up here
is this little mom and pop place so the reason i'm going to the mom and pop style
place instead of one of the bigger rental places is number one i prefer to support
the like mom-and-pop type businesses but the biggest reason is because if you've watched my
last live stream you know that my basement in my building floods and i asked them and they
said i could keep my moped in their little area when it rains so then it won't flood so
right there is where my place is and this is where i'm going to rent from so renting a motorbike in
Thailand is actually pretty easy all you need is your passport and your address where you're
staying this motorbike here cost me 1500 baht for the month and i was required to put a thousand bot
security deposit down always make sure you record a little video of what the motorbike
looked like before you left just in case there's some damage to it you don't want to get charged
when you come back you can see i'm doing it she's doing it we're both trying to protect ourselves
so the last thing i need to do before heading over to route 66 is i need to get a cell phone
holder put on this motorcycle in Thailand there are motorbike shops everywhere and usually you
can just roll in and get work done that's what i did i rolled in asked the guy if he could put it
on he said yeah it was 50 baht took five minutes all right now that we got that installed and i
can have access to google maps let's take this thing out for a spin and head over to route 66.
you know what while i'm driving i'll tell you what kind of scooter this is so this is a Honda
click it has the 125 indestructible Honda engine the same one that my Honda Grom back home has
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that is so funny man route 66 so for those who don't know i'm from Missouri
and if you don't if you're not a us person Route 66 is like a famous highway that runs through the
united states i believe it runs from chicago to california it was basically the road everyone took
to go out west on family trips after the invention of the automobile and people could travel that way
it was a really famous highway for a long time now it's kind of
a little bit of an artifact there are better interstates now so most people don't travel
on route 66 unless you're doing it for like the nostalgia or something like that but it's just
funny that there's a route 66 cafe here in the middle of Thailand i'm not in yet but this is uh
cj same same but different on youtube he's the one that recommended route 66 so we're going
to run in here grab some food we got a couple more people meeting us here as well so uh should be fun
so here i am with a bunch of other youtubers here in route 66 james from chocolate man and thailand
was just telling me that the guy who owns this place is a former british special warfare guy
who did a bunch of work with the us military so eventually got his us citizenship and loved route
66 so much that he brought route 66 to thailand which is kind of cool so we've got james casino
who was on my last video you saw we were over in kolar and we got greedy from greenie travels now
retired in thailand youtuber and then we got world famous pie over there then we got cj from cj same
same but different we're going to enjoy some i'm assuming some good old americans i can't hear you
so greeny from retired like a king was kind of busting my chops in the diner for yelling but i
had to you can hear it's pretty loud in there next time i'll make sure i bring an external
mic so the menu in route 66 is typical americana i ordered a club sandwich everyone else ordered some
sort of american style diner food except for five she ordered something a little different
it's american style oh american style it is it's packer power that is american style
there yeah all right so add egg to this but it's pretty much a club sandwich but
i don't know we'll see how the egg tastes
it's pretty good i like it i like the egg and the clove it makes it more breakfasty
so five's gonna explain to us how thai's eat with a fork and a spoon so they don't eat
with chopsticks here i know a lot of americans think taiju chopstick but they don't they use
fork in a spoon like we do but it's a little bit different yeah we use the spoon like um like here
we don't use it we just do this one to put it in inside the spoon that's it so the fork's just a
shovel yeah we don't put the pop inside don't eat with the fork so there you have it from an actual
tie on how to properly eat with a fork in a spoon in thailand and i like i tried to told him many
times but you don't use the spoon it's more easy you use this one for the rice it's already like
it's not easy so greeny stays american style i'm highly skilled with pork
you're from texas cj is that like is that good texas barbecue man
would it hold up in texas it's it's not texas but i knew he wasn't gonna be able to save it
so my turkey club curly fries and a coke were 265 baht or about eight dollars all right that
was a lot of fun make sure you go check out all their channels chocolate man in thailand
cj same same but different um retire like a king formerly known as greeny travels but this place
is really cool too if you ever come to pattaya stop by route 66 you know have the breakfast or
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for watching see you next week i got rained on on the way home so i figured i'd leave you with that
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