I ended up going to Khao Yai, a national park about two hours from Bangkok, all day
yesterday -- it was really and unexpectedly gorgeous.

The Asoke Valley is much drier than other parts of Thailand, no palm trees
but vineyards. It looks like Napa.  We rode dirt bikes and drank wine, and I tried
to go horseback riding (also unexpectedly, there is a stable of about two dozen
Arabian horses) but it was already too late in the day.  Dinner at a dairy
farm, with fresh milk.

Whole thing wonderful and disorienting.