Phuket Thailand to Chiang Mai
We decided to try local transport to the airport at Phuket and it was fun but at just over 3 hours it wore thin and we wished we had parted with the 800 baht for a taxi from Kata that would have taken an hour. Still we were there with good timing for check in and we saved 500 Baht (about $17)
We had a good priced flight to Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand and we figured we would return to Bangkok by the well known train trip that had good reports.