Ha.
We bought tickets on the overnight train, clever we thought, we'll save a night's accomodation. We were scheduled to leave at about 11pm. An English annoucement ran over the PA around 11:10 to inform us there had been an accident and our train was canceled. Ugh! Suddenly there was a mad shuffle to get on a minivan that had mysteriously materialized out of no where that was headed south. Thinking that sounded all together too schetchy for our liking we stuck it out in line to refund on our tickets.
We figured we might as well try for a night bus. Not speaking Thai we weren't able to phone or check online whether we had already missed all the busses south. Hedging our bets we got in a cab to the South Bus Station... or so we thought. A long cab ride later we paid and got out only to discover we had been dropped at the North/East/West Bus Station! The South Bus Station was 35 km south-west of where we were. Ugh!
We got back in a cab for another long haul ride. This ride was actually very long and a few times we were quite convinced he was taking us to the airport which would have been the opposite side of town, again.
We did finally make it to the South Bus Station. But, alas, there were no buses. We bought tickets on a minivan. It droped us six hours later at the edge of the town of Chumpon and we litterally hitched a ride into town with the help of a local Thai woman on a scooter.
I came to two conclusions that night; 1) I should never enter the Amazing Race because your success is directly correlated with your luck with cabbies and 2) always use a travel agency when traveling in Thailand, it's cheaper and chances are you won't be left at the edge of town.
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