"The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it"

This morning we woke up on the train from Chiang Mai to Bangkok.  Let me tell you, it isn't as glamorous as it looks in the movies.

We may have been able to bike faster than this train was traveling.  In fact we realized it was so far behind schedule, that we would be missing our connecting train in Bangkok, to get us to Hua Hin.  After Laurie's dad spoke with one of the conductors, it was desired that we needed to get off at the next station because our train would be passing through that station in a half hour.  We quickly got off.  Which isn't easy to do with luggage for six people.

We made the train we wanted, enjoyed a great lunch on board, and made it to Hua Hin.  It has a beautiful historic train station here.

We took a truck taxi to the hotel (not without incident), took much needed showers and walked down to the beach.  Now we are looking forward to seeing what we can while we are here.