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A BMW van appears near the hostel where I was at 8am, the agreed time to go on my next adventures in another part of that country still unknown to me. I saw a couple and a three year old boy in the van and I thought they were there to pick something up or meet someone, but they were about to drive me thirty or more kilometers to the bus station where I would have to make a transfer to Khao Lak along with several other tourists. And so it is done in Thailand, without major problems. I would later understand that it was the girl's parents and one of the girl's brothers who had sold me the ticker. I would have to wait a good couple of hours until I had another van ready but I took the opportunity to take a walk around the area and have breakfast in a small restaurant where the locals were too. They did not speak English but nothing like a little sign language and mime does not solve these situations. I returned to the station after paying a euro for a plate of rice with an egg and vegetables as well as a coffee and the heat was already beginning to reveal itself quite intensely. Arriving at Khao Lak I ask the driver to stop where my maps.me indicates that I am close to my hostel for that night and I walk around and I cannot find the door. I decide to ask a lady in a bar if she knew the name of that accommodation, until I find myself surrounded by three dogs barking and coming towards me, and me with my backpack of ten kilos on my back and another smaller one in front of me. She leaves your bar open and say: - I take you there. This is my motorbike so let’s go. And so he took me to the door with a smile and wishing me the best of luck for my trip. I was speechless and just thanked you with a huge gratitude in my heart. Three beds were already occupied, so I had to stay with the top one, damn it! It was here I met D. who would change my life a little. At almost my mother's age, she quickly became someone with whom I spoke on various topics and with whom I felt a special connection. She lives in one of the cities that I liked the most in France when I worked there last year. My plan was to allow myself for the unexpected that can always happen when you travel alone and without long timings. I wanted to go to Surin, Similan and a tour of the national park in Khao Lak. And I did it. On the first day I met a sixty-year-old man who told me that he did these adventures by boat and snorkeling alone since his wife preferred to go to the beach and massage and never wants to accompany him and as despite having sorry for her not doing it, she understands that life partners do not always have the same interests during that time. She also spoke about her two children and how she found me an inspiration being traveling alone at my age, being younger than her “kids”. At lunch I met an American singer who was also traveling alone for the first time before she turned thirty and had started doing it this way in Thailand. We ended up being partners and photographers of one another. The similan were guided by the girl who slept in the bunk bed under mine and we laughed a lot at this cute coincidence. I went back to Koh Tao and D. went with me in a very spontaneous way and I was even happier to be able to introduce her to the other fantastic people I met there. It was three nights where I went back to having fun as I no longer remembered being possible, in a mixture of pure happiness and freedom with genuinely good people.