The Longest Tuk Tuk Drive?

[ken_tick]

I had a friend of mine visit me a couple of years ago. He was supposed to meet me at Udon airport when I arrived. but he was not there.........

I waited a hour then went to the local pub to send him an email.

I explainned him ( in the mail) how to get to bung kan, by bus ect ect..

next morning I woke up he was sitting on our porch.

It turns out that he got picked up by some gay thai guy who offered to help him to bung kan, so they ended up driving about 250 km in a tuk tuk, with my friend being felt up on by the gay guy all the way...........

I still laugh hen I think about this.

on the bright side it only cost him 600 baht.

and he did not get butf**ked...... (he says)

anyone else have some fun stories about tuktuk rides???

ken

[tutsiwarrior]

once did the 35 km ride from amphur Suphanburi to our house with 2 adults, 3 children and a load of shopping from tescos...loads of laughs

a few years earlier did the same drive blind drunk at about 5 am and was let off by the unlit dirt track that went to mama's old house in the paddy...the driver's eyes were wide open with fright in the moonlight...I think maybe he thought that I was the ghost of some long dead falang staggering off into the darkness...

[mittheimp]

once did the 35 km ride from amphur Suphanburi to our house with 2 adults, 3 children and a load of shopping from tescos...loads of laughs

a few years earlier did the same drive blind drunk at about 5 am and was let off by the unlit dirt track that went to mama's old house in the paddy...the driver's eyes were wide open with fright in the moonlight...I think maybe he thought that I was the ghost of some long dead falang staggering off into the darkness...

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remember drink driving is not big or clever, and can cost lives!

[wolf5370]

I went for a trip to Chiang Rai one late May a few years back. The heat was unbeleivably hot for the North. When we get there we wait for a taxi - nope, no sighn. We look for a tuk-tuk, still no. Eventually we decide to take a copule of thos pedle power tuk-tuks (samlors).

Any way, we have these two samlors - one with me and the Mrs and one suit case on, tghe other with mother and three suitcases. Both the 'pedelers' were little old men. They took us to a hotel - which was full. Then they took us to another - nope, full. We went to sevral hotels and guest houses in the stiffling heat. Apparantly there was a dentist convention on (how many dentists could fill up the whole town?). Anyway, eventually they find this hotel that noone seems to use - its completely empty! The guys had been peddelling away for over an hour non-stop pretty much with a lot of weight on board (that's the suitcases!).

Anyway, off we get. they want 20 baht each! 20! I gave them their 20 baht and 200 baht each as a tip. They fell over themselves thanking me.

[BKKdreaming]

OFF SUBJECT SOME....BUT

back in the 70s a guy wanted to see Mohammed Ali fight but was afraid to fly ,

So he took a cab from the UK to Kuala Lampor to see the fight,

Gordon Cave was the Brits name and he had a Breakers Yard that I went to in 1974......

I would think that no UK cabs would have had AirConditioning at that time,

would have been a real long ride !

[ken_tick]

Anyway, off we get. they want 20 baht each! 20! I gave them their 20 baht and 200 baht each as a tip. They fell over themselves thanking me.

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only in thailand

[tutsiwarrior]

I went for a trip to Chiang Rai one late May a few years back. The heat was unbeleivably hot for the North. When we get there we wait for a taxi - nope, no sighn. We look for a tuk-tuk, still no. Eventually we decide to take a copule of thos pedle power tuk-tuks (samlors).

Any way, we have these two samlors - one with me and the Mrs and one suit case on, tghe other with mother and three suitcases. Both the 'pedelers' were little old men. They took us to a hotel - which was full. Then they took us to another - nope, full. We went to sevral hotels and guest houses in the stiffling heat. Apparantly there was a dentist convention on (how many dentists could fill up the whole town?). Anyway, eventually they find this hotel that noone seems to use - its completely empty! The guys had been peddelling away for over an hour non-stop pretty much with a lot of weight on board (that's the suitcases!).

Anyway, off we get. they want 20 baht each! 20! I gave them their 20 baht and 200 baht each as a tip. They fell over themselves thanking me.

dentist's convention in Chiang Rai???

I love it!!!

[ace]

Bangkok - Surin, December 30th 2002. Complete and utter madness.

Ex-Missus' sisters idea, I thought it was just to take us to the bus station. I got news. There is no bus.

Driver / owner was cousin, who is former Thai-boxer who had seen better days and braincells, got lost many times (it's an easy route), took 20 hours of pure heck. What a family.