Bangkok mayhem what a ride

My alarm woke me at 5:30am I thought I should start as I mean to go on, early rides finished around lunch time. I had to do 80km today so not so hard. Easy ride to get back into it, I had planned my escape from Bangkok the night before so knew where I had to go and how to get there. Yea I planned it but really would it be that easy.
Had breakfast before I left and then it was off, it is Sunday so the roads at 6:30am were fairly quiet, Down the main drag out and off I went, stuck to the edge of the road out of the way of most of the traffic, made it to the long road before my turn off. Now I had to go down this road for about 10km then my road would be on the left and then all I had to do was follow that out. Sound easy doesn’t it. Two roads both big roads.
Had a look on the map, mine was the fourth big road along, after I reached what I thought was the fourth big road along I thought something was up, it was not the right road and the map I had is pretty basic so it does not have some of the what Thai’s would call smaller roads on it. We are talking duel carriage ways and Tri carriage ways(not sure if Tri is correct here) anyway you know what I mean. For NZ these would be main highways not just city streets.
Ended up doubling back on myself and found a one of the major roads on the map, right had miles to go, back around the other way and off I went, did manage to get a couple of tows of trucks and buses at the lights. Finally after the ten km I found a sign for my road, I still had more to go. Traffic at this stage was still fairly light.
Turned onto Ramkhamhaeng road, now I know what you thinking here, how could he ever not find that road, will I found it all 8 lanes of it, and it was busy, now the fun really began, this is what I had been waiting for. Round the corner the traffic was already starting to back up, so I put the power on, well grabbed hold of a passing truck to get up a bit of speed. Then as the truck started to brake I let go and plunged into the mass of cars. Straight up the middle of two lanes. I weaved in and out of the slow moving traffic. Following motor bikes at some points on to the pavement at other points then diving back into the traffic.
I had my sunglasses on and my bandana around my face, the smoke from the traffic is terrible, it would be horrible to be in it every day, but I was just there for one day. My head long dash through the traffic keep me up with the bikes zipping through, it was a bit difficult maneuvering the trailer around some of the gaps but I managed to make it through with only a couple of hits into buses. As soon as the traffic started moving again I would try to grab hold of a truck or bus to keep the momentum going.
The traffic was like this for a good 15km and then it started to think out as I made my way to the out skirts of Bangkok, I should point out I got squeezed out a few times with buses coming to close together while I was trying to get though. I had to slam on the brakes then I would pop out the back and cut across behind the buses to take a run at the other side. I also had about 3 or 4 cars pull out in front of me and had to slam all anchors on and then cut alongside and passed.
By the time the 15km were up the traffic had thinned and it was now a duel carriage way, I pulled over and had second breakfast of pork with soup and then came across a sign that said I had forty kms to go, so off I went. A bit further up the road I remembered I needed to check my tire pressure so much to the amusement of the service station attendants I pulled in and had my tires pumped up by one of the garage people.
It took a bit to get him to understand what pressure I wanted but once this was done we were away and laughing, much to all involved amusement. I didn’t even have to get off my bike, I rode out with lots of waves and laughter, this is what traveling is supposed to be about. The rest of the ride was just a lot of traffic firing passed me at I would hate to think what speed.
I reached Chachoengsao just after lunch so it became my mission to find a hotel, had a look on the map and there was one located towards the center of town so headed that way, road down the street to the end ok so maybe I missed it, back up the other way, nope not there anymore, time to ask a local. Now this can be good or it can be bad.
My locals for today were the people who owned the local computer gamers shop and they could speak some English, I was on a winner. They told me were the hotel was and I got them to write down the name to, I should point out here I should have got them to write it in Thai as well. Can you see whats going to happen here. That’s right the sign was in Thai. I had ridden right passed it twice, once down the street once up then street, time to ask a local again, after the third local I managed to find it and now have a good sized room, I am off soon to see I can get something to eat at one of the road side stalls and then it will be up early tomorrow for the next leg of my journey to the border.