Hotel Morning Mist Resort Surat Thani

The adventure begins! The players:

1. McNeill Mann. After a summer spent moving several times, leading a Wilderness Leadership course, working on her house in Prescott, driving from NC to CA, and generally wrapping up loose ends, she boarded a plane in San Francisco at 12:30 AM on Saturday, August 16th. After 20 hours of travel and a layover in Taiwan, she arrived in Bangkok, Thailand at 11:30 on Sunday ...

... We made it to Surat Thani just in time to catch the last ferry to Koh Samui, which is then another hour ferry ride away from our ultimate destination of Koh Pha Ngan. We made it to Koh Samui and got a hotel right by the pier so that we could catch the ferry the next morning. The ferry for Koh Pha Ngan left at 11am and so we finally reached the island around noon. All things considered if I had to do it over again I would have paid the extra money to get there in an hour.

... shellfish were firmly in the "high risk of food poisoning" category. I applauded his kahones but settled for some simple pad Thai myself. Now, speaking of unkosher though... upon meeting back up, we passed an old lady selling roast insects in bulk: "I'll eat a cricket if you will," I half joked. "Okay, sure!" came Jeff's too serious response. He asked the lady how much three crickets would cost, but since she was selling them bulk she just gave them to us ...

... rest. The island is separated from the mainland by a small body of water. We chartered a small ferry that took Jess, myself, and our driver who, thankfully, joined us. This is where the challenge really begins because the island has a population of more than 1000 which is thinly spread over 50 square miles. To top it off, every building looks like the pictures of the foundation that I brought. I had ...

... hours! its really amazing.. like the eden prdject but the real deal! we saw a huge moniter lizard about 1.5 meters long. our really kind bungalow owner is going to take us to see some monkeys in a bit so i'm going to have to go. we are going to go back to koh pangan because the weather there is alot better than on the other side of thailand where its raining. we've been lucky with the weather today but apparently it rained alot yesterday and the day before here. peace

... california. Nella vela ci si augura buon vento quando ci si lascia. Chi arrampica magari si porta in ufficio strumenti dai nomi tipo hand gripper , manopole con molle che permettono di allenare le dita delle mani per potere avere una presa migliore quando si torna in parete. Mondi a parte in cui valgono regole del tutto relative e specifiche. Il sub, il diver, ripete spesso di essere un fannullone, uno svogliato, Lazy, perche' in acqua non nuota veramente, pinneggia ...

E' stata una buona decisione partire da Kho Tao perche qui l'acqua e' piu limpida e si ha una visibilta' di 25 30 metri rispetto a quella estremamente ridotta dell'isola tartaruga. In realta' non abbiamo visto quasi nulla perche siamo in una fase per lo piu' teorica o la cui componente pratica si svolge soprattutto in piscina o in spiaggia in shallow water, a pochi metri da riva. Abbiamo trovato una scuola che sembra molto valida e fin' ora abbiamo imparato parecchio. Si ...

... the police boat that was out to sea that morning. While at Mamas a tuk-tuk (taxi) stopped and a couple got out. The first thing they did was run up to Mama and throw their arms around her. They started sobbing and all they could say was 'we didn't know if you were alive'. This was a common experience the whole time we were there. On our ...