We started quite early on Day 4 despite being tired from the previous day of outdoor activity. We reached in time for the 7AM ferry and got off on the main island around 8:30AM. We raced back home retracing the roads that we had treaded 2 days before. Just around 1 hour to the border our fuel tank dried. We were very conservative filling petrol in Thailand. For starters, petrol costed 1.5 times that in KL and in Koh Samui it was much more costlier. However, the calculation turned out to be really faulty and we stranded on the road. Luckily we had just entered Songhkla and our engine ended dead just 50 mins from the Shell pump. How lucky can you get?
We refilled and hurried to border. Very typical, at Thai border they demanded RM 10 from all of us and no receipt!!! We paid without a murmer, you cant bargain with the border guys, can you?
The nightmare started in form of the traffic jams. Once we crossed Butterworth on E1, traffic got real worse. What routes we did at 120 on our way to Thailand, we ended doing 30 kmph!!! Everyone was returning after a the Chinese New Year holidays. We finally decided to stop at Ipoh to have dinner and wait for midnight hoping the jam would clear out. It took Nik’s smart driving cutting lanes to drop us back to KL at 2:30AM after almost 18 hrs of driving. We had clocked 1700 km over 4 days!
Not bad… but I have a long week to catch up with.. I slept dreaming with holiday sights interspersed with my next day at office.
The worst nightmare of the day started once we crossed the
