24 Hours of Travel

My friend drove me to the train station yesterday after he arrived to Chiang Mai from Bangkok, doing business there. I woke up early and prepared everything, I only travelled with my 1 backpack.
We were running late and my train was due to leave at 2:50pm. We had lunch at a Thai BBQ street cafe, then I went into the coffee shop next door called "Wawee Coffee". They have designed this chain of Coffee shops in Chiang Mai really well, even better than Star bucks. I looked at my phone while inside waiting for my coffee and it said 2:40 pm. I didn't pay any attention to it because the train is always late anyways.
When I got into the car, he lectured me a little bit about being so slow and said that I am more Thai than him, that I am really slow for doing everything and at the same time not stressing about anything.

We finally arrived at the train station at about 3:10 pm; the train had not arrived yet. So he stayed with me for about an hour, I bought him ice cream and then he needed to go home and take a nap before telling me that the computer system has shut down and the train dispatchers are communicating the train passenger lists and other info by phone only, so this might take some time.
After waiting 3 and a half hours, the train finally came and then they started to clean it. By the time we finally got going, the train left 4 hours late. I passed the time eating fruit and buying food for the trip and talking to a Dutch girl about how her camera is bot working properly.

The train ride was mostly uneventful and the scenes in the morning time were refreshing, I did not sleep very much at all.


Finally we arrived in Bangkok at 8:30 am or so. I immediately hopped on the public bus #29 from the train station to Victory Monument, then caught my mini-bus to the airport to catch my flight to Surat Thani.
The flight was fine and only lasted an hour.

When I arrived at the Surat Thani airport, I bought a 'joint ticket' = Bus + Ferry to the Island of Koh Samui. The bus and ferry ride lasted a total of 4 hours and cost ฿350. Once I arrived on Koh Samui, I went to find a taxi to Lamai which took 30 minutes. I was on the opposite side of the island. Finally I arrived at my bungalow about 9pm. I was so tired, I was disoriented.
After I went out for a bite to eat and spent some time on the internet, I went to my house and watched some movies. At about 1:00 am, I went out for a walk down the beach and met this guy who was fishing. I asked him his name and we talked a bit. He said the resort bar where he works is open 24 hours, so went went back and we played pool with the other locals until 6 am. Even though I was tired, I needed to have some fun after the trip. Once I walked back to my house, I basically passed out in my bed and slept until 5pm today.

I miss Chiang Mai already...