Hey guys, I will try to keep you up to date as often as I can but I would not want to bore you with travel stories, well, the good thing is if you are not interested, you do not have to read it. To give you the head's up on my trip, the motto for today is "so far so good" The trip started extremely well. The bus ride from Brighton to the airport...

Well, it's about 10am and we have arrived at the hotel. We had a very quick change of planes in Doha, Qatar-meaning they held the plane for us as we had left Amman an hour late and there were about 23 of us traveling together including Shamus, who's only 2 1/2/ months old. I wasn't sure if our luggage would make it but it did! Once we got all of...

Thailand is a country that clearly adores their King - his picture adorns family homes, workplaces, large buildings, street signs, etc. Because the King was born on a Monday and Mondays are associated with the colour yellow, yellow is the colour that Thai people wear to show respect for the King. Every Monday, the city is awash with yellow shir...

We took another cab ride through crazy streets to see the flower market and vegetable market in Chinatown. Women were actively stringing marigolds and lotus and other flowers into chains to sell as offerings for Buddha. The vegetable market was filled with orange and red peppers. We were the only anglos in sight. After that, we struggled through...

Our last morning in Siem Reap I didn't wake up early enough to get a pancake at the resturant downstairs. These pancakes had been a little taste of home these last few days and I had made sure to get one every morning. Today though, it was definately a good thing that I did not get my beloved pancake, because I surely would have lost it somewher...

Albi: I love Bangkok. Apart from the noise and the stink and the confusion from all the cars and tuk-tuk three wheelers, it's quite fun just trying to get your bearings. Kelly, however, has been a bit overwhelmed with all the stimulation. So far, we've been taking it very slow. Kelly: Not at ALL what I had expected. Our hotel is FANTASTIC! The B...

Regrettably i had to leave Cambodia this morning, and was up at 6am, packing my bags and saying goodbye (temporarily) to my travelling companion for the last 3 countries!! :( It was a sad moment, but i had no time to hang about, as my tuk-tuk man was pacing around waiting to load me and my considerable baggage onto the back of his motorbike to u...

Flew down from Bangkok to Phuket with Nok Air using Nok Air plus, this is like the old Thai Airways seating on their Boeing 737 aircraft. Flight was on time and we had great seats as flying Nok Plus, just 2 seats either side, it was a good way to fly from Bangkok to Phuket.

We flew back into Thailand today. I didn't think I'd ever be happy to be in Bangkok again, but it's certainly nice to no longer fear the government. This morning we met a young couple from Florida, Rebecca and Casey. She's originally from Oregon, but they met in the navy stationed near Tampa. They're a lot of fun and randomly decided (during our...

We've been in Bangkok for about a week now. We had no troubles with the flight or getting through immigration. We got to our guesthouse about 2 A.M. to find that they had lost our reservations. They gave us another available room on the fourth floor. The stair spiraled and narrowed to the point that we could barely get through with our packs. I ...