19th Day of the Year

Today is the 19th day of the year or Week 3.
I have been busy and i presume others are in the same mode...
Hence my last postings was on Week One...
Starting the year with my driving adventure alone, to the East Coast, i had another adventure last weekend.
Took a drive with my 'big brother' who is a brother of my friend from Melor(a small village south of Kota Baru), up to Hatyai, through Bukit Kayu Hitam and took a flight to Bangkok on Sunday,14th arriving after sunset.
Came back on Tuesday evening arriving in Hatyai at 1930 hrs local time.(2030 WM Time)and decided to drive through Pattani and Narathiwat to Kota Baru and hoping to spend the night at my friend's house in Melor...
However we reached Golok way past midnight and the border was already closed. So we slept at the nearest hotel.
After breakfast on Wednesday morning, we drove across to Kota Baru, but decided to leave the car there and took the evening flight to KLIA.....
We thought that it was just a normal trip that we took that night driving through the troubled areas of Southern Thailand..there was not an iota of worries..
We were told on arrival at Hatyai that there was some bombings earlier in the day at Chanae, which was along the route...but my brother says that there is nothing to worry because we will be passing through friendly territory, populated by Thai Muslims Malay...However my friend in Melor was worried that we might not reached Kota Baru...because we were not in communication till we reached Golok. I guessed they must have blocked the communication from Pattani till Golok...there was no line..
The road was superb, double lane all the way and there was only a handfull or rather only one handfull of other vehicles that passed our way..otherwise it was a very lonely road..
There were about 6 roadblocks and there was no fuss in letting us through...
It was a risk that we took that night, so we were told...but then again we were aware of the risk when we decided to drive through that route...
So that was the second risk that i took in the first month of the year...Still another week or so to go...let's see what other risk is there...
No venture no gain...and when you gain, then it is an adventure.