Sukhothai to Mae Sot to Umphong

9/19/2006

Today was a travel day for the most part. After breakfast, we had a 3.5 hour drive in air conditioned vans to a relatively small town called Mae Sot. There we met the trekking company we would be using for the next 3 days. The guy playing the guitar in the picture is Jack, one of the trekking guides. It's not a very good picture, unfortunately. After lunch, the trekking company took us to an even smaller town called Umphong, which was a 5 hour tsongtau ride from Mae Sot. It was mostly uphill. After unloading our gear at a guesthouse in Umphong, we had a nice family style Thai meal. The place we ate had a karaoke machine, which served as the post-dinner entertainment. It was strange since all the music was played as if it had been made using a synthesizer, but it was still fun. I didn't sing anything, of course. Brendan was quite good.