Day 087 of Our Winter: It was not a tough day at all but it did include a lot of moving. We started out in Pattaya and now we're in Chiang Mai, Thailand.We checked out of the Sunshine Hotel & Residences after a final breakfast. It had one of the better buffet breakfasts of our trip thus far. As soon as I clicked the destination as BKK on the Grab app, it connected to a driver. It was a lady driver who had a lead foot and got us to the airport with 90 minutes.
As soon as we entered the airport, we discovered that our Air Asia flight to this city would be nearly an hour late. By the time we actually were about to land, the sun was setting. Our two bags were unloaded quickly. The sisters were asked to check in carry-on. As they didn't have anything they needed on the hour plus flight, they checked them too. We stopped at the Airport Taxi booth right near the luggage area and proceeded directly to the SUV #70 directly. We checked into the hotel around 6:30 pm. We are in the Sleep Mai? hotel near the Tha Phae Gate of the old city.
Jay's younger sister caught something on the trip and is quite sick. She didn't feel up to walking out for dinner, so we picked up some light food at a 7/11. We also stopped at the pharmacy and got some medicines for her symptoms. Travelling while sick is not fun. We do have enough time in Chiang Mai to allow her to recover and still see the sights. We have the rest of the week here before we head back to Bangkok on January 31st for our final days there.
Jay and I went across the moat canal and had food at John's that opened up the year following Jay's and my last time in this city. We haven't been in Chiang Mai since the spring of 1991.
