Unrest in Bangkok cause for Johnson to cancel trip

NEW YORK -- Jimmie Johnson has tabled a planned offseason trip to Thailand after protestors had shut down an airport in Bangkok for a week and left the country's government in turmoil.

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"We just canceled our trip and [are] trying to think of what to do now," the three-time Sprint Cup Series champion said Tuesday. "We're on short notice, and I'm sure we can think something out. We really wanted to travel somewhere off the wall and far. I'm not sure where we'll end up now."

Ironically, both Johnson and Carl Edwards had plans to go to Thailand. Edwards wanted to go biking throughout the country.

That wasn't Johnson's plan.

"I'm going to drink; I'm going to eat bad food," the Hendrick Motorsports driver said about the planned trip. "[Edwards is] going to ride and eat ... bird feed and drink water the whole time. That's not me.

"I'd meet him and ride through a town on a bike. But to go with backpacks, from town to town to town, there's no way. And I just don't think it's all that safe to ride around there right now."