Day 79: Samut Sakhon to Bangkok

We’ve made it to Bangkok

…and we’ve made it to Brian and Celia’s lovely apartment in Sathon. It seems strange after so many nights in adequate, but often a little basic hotel rooms, to spend a night in a lovely, clean home. Our dusty panniers seem very out of place.

Bangkok also gave us the chance to get to a DJI Service Centre to find out what’s gone wrong with our drone. They’ve taken a look and it seems it was just sand in the cooling fan, so we should be ok to start getting some lovely aerial shots of India as we start the next phase of our journey.

Getting to Brian and Celia’s home has also meant we get the parcels we’ve had sent there, so we get two upgrades. Firstly, the replacement satellite tracker will work with batteries again. This means we can broadcast our position every thirty minutes again, rather than once per day when we can plug the tracker in.

Secondly, we have a replacement rear cassette for the Blue Strawberry. Since Indonesia we’ve had a problem with the second lowest gear on the bike jumping badly. This has meant some big jumps if we try to start in that gear, and a few dented shins. With a new cassette we should finally have a fully functional Strawberry again.

Brian and Celia treated us to a lovely rooftop meal last night with a great view over Bangkok. Great to catch up and learn about living in Bangkok.