R & R

When  Megan last left you, we were getting our bearings back in Koh Samui, Thailand, an island in the south.  After our disappointments in Laos and our bout with homesickness, we needed something to get us out of our funk.  It turns out that a Thai island is just what the doctor ordered. Though Koh [...]

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Chiang Mai miscellanea

One of the joys of this trip is being able to experience the simple day-to-day of far-away places, to observe people as they go through their daily routines, eating how they eat, traveling how they travel and shopping where they shop.  Despite it being one of my favorite parts of this whole experience, descriptions of [...]

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Flight of the Gibbon

I’m not quite sure what spawned her obsession, but one of the things my mom most wanted  to do on her trip to Thailand was go ziplining through the jungle.  I had no idea that Thailand even did it, but she got on it herself and googled it and gave me some helpful information.  It [...]

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The Island Life

One of our first stops in Thailand, other than Bangkok, was an island in the Gulf of Thailand, not terribly far from Bangkok and even closer to the Cambodian border–Koh Chang (elephant island in Thai).  Upon arriving in Koh Chang, we headed straight for a town called Lonely Beach, which is no longer exactly lonely, [...]

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Southeast Asia, We Have Arrived

(side note before I begin:  we still have plenty of New Zealand stuff coming, and now that we have better and free internet again, they’ll be interspersed with our Thailand posts) Southeast Asia.  The backbone of the trip since its inception.  The one place we knew we were coming from the get-go.  The one place [...]

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