Itinerary

We have finally made plans to leave this place (Chiang Mai) and visit other things before we head to Aus. Today is Tuesday and we will be taking a minivan (with A/C) up to a small hippie town called Pai (pronounced "Bye") tomorrow morning. Apparently it's only like 100 km (66 miles), but it still takes like 3 or 4 hours. It's up a steep windy road. Excellent, at least Kane and I aren't prone to getting completely car sick...

I actually used to manage to get sick going to Grandma and Grandpa's house when I was a kid. If you don't know, that's about a 7 minute drive from my mom's house. Kane gets sick just looking at water and a curvy road affects he and I with the same intensity and in the same time frame (immediately). But, we're sucking it up and making our way to this town regardless at the recommendation of Kane's friend Sean. It better be cool there. Actually, it's supposed to be really cold - like down in the 40s at night since it's in the mountains. Why are we going here again???

Ok, so 2 nights in Pai then back to Chiang Mai for one night and then a direct flight on Friday down to Koh Samui. It's a small island (maybe half the size of Oahu?) in the south eastern side of the country, in the Gulf. It's a tropical beach island known for sand and water sports and all night parties. Though we are not prone to partaking in any of these, really, we are going to try it out to get the full feel of the country. We'll be there for 7 nights and booked a neat beach bungalow (with A/C - we're not really roughing it for goodness sake). We'll see how it goes, I think it will be very nice.

Then we have our flight back to Bangkok on the 14th from Samui at which point we will board our plane to Sydney at 5pm. It's another 10 hour flight and we get there at 6am. Do the math, that's means there is a 3 hour time difference between Bangkok and Sydney?? So after flying the whole night we get to arrive at the crack of dawn in a new country, yeay! We'll get a hotel and recover, no big deal. Anyway, then the real adventures begin...stay tuned.