We took an overnight train for a few days in Chiang Mai to have a change of atmosphere, catch a temple we didn't see last time we were in Chiang Mai, AND so Jana could attend a massage course. She attended two all-day classes on Saturday and Sunday to learn oil massage therapy. Jana really enjoyed the class at Spa Mantra. She and Anthoula (a Gre...

We signed up for a three-day "hill tribe trek" to get out into the countryside. It turned out to be quite an adventure. Too many of us were piled into an open truck with benches. We made a stop at a security station to register with the expats working there. He definitely looked like he'd rather be in a bar than talking to us. Our guides, Ken an...

Tuesday morning started off well with some suckling pig and rice for breakfast and a coffee shake. We had decided to have a chill out day, and wandered around Chiangmai for a while. We found a great vegetarian restaurant for lunch where we had bamboo shoot curry and pink rice. In the afternoon we wandered around a bit more, eating various exotic...

Happy New Year People! Last year has been one helluva ride, and 2007 will only complement it im sure. 11 months on the road today and there's no slowing down. As the one-year mark quickly closes in, time seems to not matter anymore. A year seems to be but another dotted line on a circular track of time, one that never ends. Succeeds in creating ...

The 20th - this was the day we arrived in Chiang Mai - a nice city but impossible to cross the roads; the cheapest internet in Thailand (10Baht an hour), and the best hot chocolate I've ever tasted (Wawee Coffee). We were collected at the train station and brought to the Holiday Garden View - a stupid name for a guesthouse - but the people were ...

Wow...it's been awhile since we last wrote. FYI, I (nicki) am writing this on Nov 9 but trying to accurately backdate and remember what happened a couple weeks ago. We took a night bus up to Chiang Mai and, once there, were so very happy to have left the bulk of our luggage in Bangkok. Walking around looking for a guesthouse is SO much easier wh...

Hello Again! Bern and I have been quite busy -yesterday was a "full cup" as Mike would say. We flew from Bangkok in southern thailand all the way up to Chiang Mai in the north where there are beautiful mountains and tons of stuff for farang or falang (that's us whiteys) to do including (according to the tuk tuk drivers who always are hawking the...

Saa... Naaede jeg da tilbage til Thailand... Men STA var desvaerre lukket da jeg naaede frem. Saa maa vente med at aendre min billet til jeg kommer til Phuket. Men dte bliver snart! Det skide crash har hevet utrolig meget tid ud af min planlaegning. Men det er der jo ikke noget at goere ved. Har haft det super i Chiang Mai. Folk har vaeret utrol...