Chiang Mai, Thailand, Asia We arrived in Chiang Mai at about 6:30am, and both of us were exhausted! Neither one of us could get comfortable enough to sleep on the bus, so spent most of the night tossing and turning in our seats. We got a tuk-tuk to Chiang Mai International Youth Hostel and were greeted by the owner Peter about ten minutes after we got there. Unfortunately we weren’t able to check in right away because a room wasn’t…
Bangkok, Thailand, Asia Today I finally got to see the Emerald Buddha! I got to cross off #48 on my top 100 list, which was the 47th thing I’ve seen. I’m making good progress! We got up at about 9am and started some laundry and grabbed some breakfast downstairs. We had to decide what we were going to do after Chiang Mai, and we decided on a nice resort in Phuket for a week. You can get some awesome deals…
Bangkok, Thailand, Asia We started today out with another breakfast at our hostel and then started planning what our next steps would be. We realized that tonight is our last night booked in this hostel and we should figure out where we want to go next. We decided that we’re going to go up to Chiang Mai, and then go down to the islands after that, so we needed to book our bus. We waited for the tour woman to…
Bangkok, Thailand, Asia Lynne and I got up at about 10am and grabbed breakfast at the hostel. We caught the BTS over to Central Pier, and from there got a water taxi upriver to Tha Tien. This is where we thought we could see the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, but we saw a sign that said Wat Pho was closer. We weren’t sure what that was, but I had heard the name before, so we decided to take a…
Bangkok, Thailand, Asia I didn’t get up to much in Bangkok today, because I was afraid I would see something cool, but then would have to go back to see it again when Lynne got here. I chilled at the hostel for most of the morning and then headed to a local shopping center with my roommate Taylor. We grabbed some lunch while we were out, and then went back to the hostel to chill. I decided that today would…
Bangkok, Thailand, Asia I was woken up at 7am by the staff at Happy Coconuts Hostel this morning, and told that my check out time was in 15 minutes. It turns out that I found the only hostel in the world that does not have a normal “Check In” and “Check Out” time protocol. Instead, they operate on a 24 hour room rental, so because they were “nice enough” to let me check in at 7:15am, they were making me…
Manila, Philippines, Asia I had a horrible night’s sleep last night on the bus. The seats are just not big enough to accomodate someone who is over six feet tall. And it didn’t help that the person in front of me had to put their seat back to fully lie down, which just made it that much tighter. I was pretty sore from the caving and the hiking from yesterday, so I couldn’t get comfortable at all. It just wasn’t…
Banaue, Philippines, Asia Today was one of the most exhausting days I can remember, ever. I woke up at 6:30am to meet the group up in the lobby for 7am. We were hoping to have more people wanting to go to Batad that we could share a jeepney with, but there was only one he/she that wanted to go, but only one way. We had some breakfast at the hotel restaurant, where I had a huge chocolate and banana pancake….
Banaue, Philippines, Asia Today started out with an early wake up at the George Guest House so I could catch the 8:30am jeepney to Bontoc, and then get a bus at 10am to Banaue. It didn’t quite work out that way. I got up to the bus stop at 8:10am but they jeepney was already full so I had to wait till 9am. No problem really, because I should still have been able to get there at 9:45am in time…
Sagada, Philippines, Asia Today was an awesome day! I woke up after a great night sleep at George Guest House and wasn’t sure that I really wanted to do anything today. I knew that I was going to be staying here for tonight, so I had the full day, but just kind of felt like relaxing. I bummed around until about 10am and then went for breakfast at Yoghurt House. I had an awesome breakfast with a scrambled egg, a…