Bangkok Harriettes #2271

Back to Bang Sue, not literally, just starting back out there by the new train station. It was a hot and humid evening, but it looked like the rain would hold off for us, and it did . . . until just before circle (then it let loose on us).

Trail started by running back to the station, where the septuagenarian pack of early starters got bogged down at the first check. Although they started about 30 minutes before the main pack, we found them still searching just a km away. In their frustration, they shouted they had looked all over, and had already covered over 4 kms with little to show for it. The pack soon found the paper and off we traveled up along the train tracks.
Weaving our way through the streets and dirt paths before us, we crisscrossed the RR tracks several times. It was an excellent trail, but there were just two little things that confused the pack. First, the hares used pack arrows . . . so there was no distinction between the two as we moved along (and someone in the pack was dropping pack arrows a tad bit carelessly).

Second, trail eventually passed through someone else's hash trail from the past couple weeks and then the shit started hitting the fan. We ran off on what ended up being old trail. Eventually figuring out that we were definitely not headed back to our start point, we turned around and eventually found our trail. 2 kms later, we found the hares waiting at a beer check, with a mea culpa (we were 9 kms in at this point), handing us a beer along with 20 baht to catch the train (we were still over 4 kms away from finishing, so they told us to get on the train).

BUT, it was still a km to get to the train, ride 2 stops, and then another km from the train to the finish. So in the end, we covered 11 kms on a increasingly humid evening. In the end, we all found our way back to the on home, and all was right once again, in the world. Another fun evening on the mean streets of Bangkok.Read more