Chada Ko Lanta

Just finished a banana pancake and coconut shake. Today is hot again but there is a nice, light breeze to sooth the body. It is quiet here at the fisherman's resort, but I am just visiting because they have free wireless internet and the food is good. It's been about a week since I last came here however, I remember sitting at this table writing on my laptop when all of a sudden someone ...

... nonetheless for me and Jac as it reminded us of so many Asian small towns. All drains and broken pavement, random shops and travel agents. Sellers retreated behind pulled down blinds by 11 am as the hot sun forced us into a lovely little cafe on stilts overlooking the jetty. Liam and Asha hated it. In a flood of tears, Mr Adam (for he had surely been stalking us) swooped down and biked us ...

... mins haha and go to eat at a little Indian restaurant. We sit down and Adam starts itching. And itching. And itching some more. And then he jumps up and says that hes gotta get out of there because he can't stand the itching anymore. So we end up going to a chemist to get some cream. We go back to the hotel and rub it all in and take some anti-histemines (yep I can't spell lol) and hes going CRAZY!!! He can't stop itching and rubbing and hes got welts on ...

... in Nepal. As I flew from Bangkok to Kathmandu (via a 6 hour layover in Hong Kong), I truly wondered how different my treks through the Himalayas would be compared to those I had made in S. America and Australia/New Zealand...

Counts at the end of my time in Thailand include:

Flight segments: 2
Bus rides (non intracity-1 hr+): 2
Ferry Rides: 2
Train rides (non intracity): 2
New friends on Facebook: 8
Sunglasses used: 1

... which everyone admired. We spent most of the days driving around the Island and checking out different viewpoints and beaches. Some of the beaches are amazingly beautiful. And if you drive to the south of the island the beaches barely have any people on them. It is great to have a motorbike to find these places. One night we sat on the porch of our bungalow and ...

... takze to bylo obcas docela srandovni, jak jsme se s nima vsemozne domlouvali. Slunicko svitilo kazdy den, akorat vzdycky odpoledne nebo vecer prisla kratka bourka. Treti den, kdyz jsme se vylenosili dosyta, jsme si pujcili skutr a vyrazili na obhlidku ostrova. Objevili jsme spoustu opustenych plazi a zalivu, ale stejne ta nase byla nejhezci. Na vychodnim pobrezi jsme take zabloudili do nekolika rybarskych vesnicek, kde nebyli zadni turisti, jenom ...

... skies clouded over, and a torrential downpour started. We had stupidly gone ashore in the dinghy leaving the yacht wide open. Ed & I rushed back to the dinghy, getting soaked to the skin, and gingerly motored out through the steep chop which had built up very quickly. We closed up the yacht's hatches and sponged down all the wet interior. A number of the bunk cushions had got wet, so we had to mix ...

... when we managed to find a stray human, and practially jumped on them with questions. It turned out that we COULD have a room - for which we were eternally grateful - and that it was a lot cheaper due to the season. Brilliant! We settled into our room & got our bikinis on before heading to the beach, and it was essentially like having an entire island to ourselves, which was very peaceful and strange! It turned out that quite a good little ...

Sa-Wa-Tee-Ka from currently sunny Thailand on Christmas Day.

2+ weeks in and we're finally ready to sit down for a good story session.
After much discussion as to how we can do this together (okay...not really) I'll be providing the narrative on this entry. Pen was going to pepper in her bits here and there....but she has decided she has very important business to take care of on the beach.

Allow me to set the scene...I'm sitting in a concrete ...