Our hotel turned out to be good but when they showed Joan the room the lights were off and they couldn't turn them on without going back to the lobby and throwing a switch. They eventually threw the switch and we took the room. The woman who ran the hotel had lived in Philadelphia for several years. We couldn't find fried eggs anywhere, so I had a local standard, rice gruel and pork balls. She got something at a bakery.
Bakeries are common in larger Thai towns and usually pretty good.
We rode north to Phichit that day. We started to see hills in the distance to the east but the road, now following the Nan river, stayed flat. We passed rice padis, corn fields and other fields all day. At Bang Mun Nak we split a delicious watermelon for lunch while sitting on a wooden table along the street. We stopped at a bike store where we found an English-speaking shop owner.