Vientiane, Laos, Asia I got up today and enjoyed a great breakfast at my hotel. They had a few things to choose from and I had the fried eggs and sausages (which are actually hot dogs), with a banana shake and fruit salad. It was a great start to the day. At about 11am I headed over to Joma Bakery to try and meet up with Palli, from the train, but he wasn’t there. I did run into Katy, a…
Vientiane, Laos, Asia Last night was a fairly good ride, I only woke up a few times and probably got 4-5 hours of sleep. I got up at 7am and had some breakfast on the train before finding out that we were running about 3 hours late. Instead of getting to Nong Khai at 8:25am, we pulled in at about 11:15am. I stuck with Palli and a Russian guy named William. We got a tuk tuk to the Thailand Immigration…
Nong Khai, Thailand, Asia I got up this morning to see Lynne off at 6:30am. It’s a sad, sad day. We’ve had a great time travelling through Thailand together, but I’m on my own again to head into Laos. I hung around the hostel today using their wifi to take care of a few things. I have no idea what the internet situation is going to be like in Laos, so I figured I’m safest to use it while I…
Bangkok, Thailand, Asia I woke up this morning very well rested after finally being back in a place with air conditioning. It’s amazing the difference that makes after walking around in the 90*+ heat all day. Lynne and I got up and she went straight up to the roof deck to soak up as many of the sun’s rays as possible. I watched a few TV shows and took advantage of the amazingly fast download speeds at the hostel to…
Bangkok, Thailand, Asia Today was such a long and strange day. Planes, trains, and automobiles doesn’t even start to explain it. We were picked up by a nice air conditioned van at 6:30am to go to the pier in Nathon. From there we caught the ferry for an hour and a half to Surat Thani on the mainland. We had bought a joint ticket to get us straight to the airport, so when we got off the ferry we got…
Lamai Beach, Thailand, Asia With today being our last day on the island, we decided to do nothing and just take in the surroundings at the resort. We were awake by 8am and out by the pool by 8:05am. We hung out there all day with only short breaks for food or a pitcher of beer from the restaurant. We went out tonight into Lamai, and we were supposed to meet up with Dan and Francisca for dinner, but we…
Lamai Beach, Thailand, Asia I got up early this morning and the Easy Divers taxi was at my hotel at exactly 7am to pick me up. We picked up a few other people on the way to the pier and got on the boat just in time for our 8am departure time. I was under the impression that it was going to be about an hour and a half to the dive site, it turned out to be about three…
Lamai Beach, Thailand, Asia I got up today and decided that these waterfalls were not going to elude me any longer. I hopped on a scooter and left Lynne to soak up some of the sun’s rays. I headed west to find “Waterfall 2” and I found where Lynne and I had gone wrong before. We took a turn about 0.5k too soon, so when I kept driving on, I found the entrance to the waterfall. I parked at the…
Lamai Beach, Thailand, Asia We got up this morning and had an early breakfast at the resort before being picked up by the taxi company. We bought our ferry ticket for Koh Phangan from reception last night and it included a taxi pickup from our hotel. They picked us up at 8:30am and we were at the pier by 9:10am. This would have been perfect, except our ferry wasn’t leaving until 10:30am! I have no idea why they picked us…
Lamai Beach, Thailand, Asia Lynne and I got up at about 7am after both having a terrible night’s sleep. There is no A/C in the room, just a fan on the ceiling and it was pretty noisy and still just too hot in the room. But since we were up, we figured we’d head out to the beach and get a good spot before it got busy. It really is a beautiful place to be with white sand beaches and…