
The three of us, Peter, Tatjana, and Chester, took a trip to Bangkok and we drove all the way there with our own car. Its quite a long ride at about 800 kilometers (500 miles) and 11 hours of driving if you don’t stop for bathroom breaks or to eat. In other words, add a few hours and you will have a more accurate time. And since we were doing this during our vacation we decided to take it slow and do it in stages. One of the nice parts during this trip was that all three of us now have driver’s licenses and we could therefore take turns driving which lightened the load for everyone.
Our first stop was in Phitsanulok at a place we have stopped at before and has now become one of our planned stops on pretty much every trip to the south. Our next stop was in Lopburi where we visited distant relatives and then we went on to Bangkok where we stayed at the YWAM National Office. This is where Chester worked and lived near for a year. In Bangkok there is an IKEA that we wanted to go to to do some shopping. It is funny that for a minute you can imagine that you are back in the Netherlands.
The next day we picked up grandpa and grandma van Tongeren, Tatjana’s parents, from the airport. They flew in for a vacation with us. Chester got to see people he knows in Bangkok and hangout with his friend. All in all it was a great time!
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