Traveling the World

This morning we rolled out on our motorbikes with me in the lead. Today was my day to shine, to show my friends I wasn’t useless and could plan a day trip. Everything went as planned. I got us where we needed to go without any problems. Around 1:30 we were leaving the Mangrove Forest Walkway that leads to the Khao Khanab Nam cave to go back home when I had an accident on the bike.

We were in a parking lot and a truck started up the hill to go back onto the street, and 2 of the bikes in my party were already at street level, so i gunned it to beat the truck so i wouldn’t lose my friends. Well, bad luck for me because I hit the ramp at a weird angle and couldn’t turn in time and I went over the mini median and hit a mangrove tree. I was wearing a helmet, but also sandals. The truck driver rushed me to the emergency room because I lost a lot of skin. In the end, I have an abrasion on my left ankle, 2 on my right elbow, one really bad wound on my right palm (you can see a clear layer of skin lost, and a little bit of the muscle), a bad wound on my right knee, and 3 terrible wounds on my big right toe (lost A LOT of skin there). I’ll post pictures when I get back to China since I can’t upload any pictures right now. They gave me good dressing and pain meds and antibiotics, and all I had to pay was 470 baht (about $13).

I had to pay 6520 baht ($195) in damages for the bike