A Road to Nowhere

Thailand - as I see it.

A Road to Nowhere
 

We rented a car and went for a ride to see a Tulip Festival.  Many of the roads are unpaved and dusty.  We started out on a nice paved road in Chiang Mai and we travelled out into the unsettled area outside of Chiang Mai.  The road was very curvy and there were hills on both sides of the road.  For a while the road was very narrow but very straight. We were stopped by police at a check point and asked where we were from.  The soldiers were all dressed in army drab and they were standing at metal gates on either side of the road that stopped the cars.  Rob told them Chiang Mai in Thai and they smiled and told us to go on.  As we drove along the fields and woods, we saw little shacks dotting the forest/field area.

The road was curvy and hilly and seemed to get narrower.  The steep hills were on either side of the road and the trees were planted on the hillsides everywhere you looked.  It seemed as if we were winding up a mountain, up up up.  We looked down into the hills and slopes and people were cultivating the land.  We saw rice paddies on our way also.

Workers cultivating the land.

Rice Paddies.

We went by a tree with hundreds of roots about six or seven feet above the ground.  The road kept getting bumpier and bumpier.  The road turned to orange dust, very bumpy and winding and steeper and steeper.

Finally, we arrived at a big area where there had been a festival, but nothing was there now except for some wooden boards and posters in Thai.  So we had to turn around and take that scary road back.  Oh well, it was a nice ride to see the countryside.