Another day, another disposal on the side of the road by our bus driver. This time the road was more a highway than a road, so it made all that more exciting. The TAT office is letting us down. Luckily a tuk tuk took us on the LONG route to our hotel. Geez!
Upon arrival we [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 28, 2008
Ayutthaya
June 27, 2008
Wats, Wats, and more Wats
30 baht will get you your very own set of wheels, two wheels that is. Yes, we braved the heat and humidity to ride our bikes through the Wats of Sukhothai.
To Anonymous poster: Yes, my butt is a little sore.
BUT… I did get to ride a sweet cruiser, a Crocodile cruiser to be exact.
We were [...]
June 26, 2008
Sukhothai
Today we went from Bangkok to Sukhothai via bus. We got all of this organized through the TAT, which is the government run travel agency. It was interesting, but we got it worked out.
In the AM we were picked up by a driver who took on this roundabout drive to the bus terminal. Once there [...]
June 26, 2008
Bangkok, Baby!
I arrived in Bangkok in one piece and with all my luggage. This is the first time in a long time I actually got somewhere in a timely fashion. No running through airports. It was amazing.
Bangkok is crazy! Huge. Loud. HOT! Polluted. Full of people asking “where you from”?
I taxied over to meet up with Kelly [...]
June 20, 2008
Missed Connections
If your bets for my missed conncetion were on either (a) LAX or (b) DENVER, then you were wrong. If you placed your bet outside the box and chose (c) flight cancelled, then you are the big winner.
How on earth did this happen to me (yet again)? I’ll tell you. United airlines has it out [...]
June 15, 2008
The Long Way Home
I depart CHC NZ today and am mentally prepared for the long journey. I travel from CHC to AKL to LAX to DEN to TPA.
Any bets on which connection I am going to miss?
It’s a toss-up between
(a) the 2 hours and 10 minutes I have in LAX to go from International to Domestic terminals, or
(b) [...]
June 11, 2008
How Winter Almost Killed Me, Literally
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Winter has officially arrived here in CHC with our first snow; real honest-to-goodness snow fell at my house on Saturday, and is actually uncommon for this area–kind of like snow in Raleigh. I am usually pretty excited about snow, but here snow just means one thing—it is bloody, stinking cold. You might be thinking “well, [...]
June 6, 2008
It is official…the tour of SE Asia is on
I depart NZ on June 16 and arrive back in Tampa at some ungodly hour unless I miss a flight which seems likely with the current connection times I have. Plus I am a bad luck traveller; Sod’s law (as they say here instead of Murphy’s law) always gets me.
I will spend one week in [...]
June 4, 2008
The Tale of the Evil Possum
The story of how we killed our rental car needs to be told.
It was a lovely day on the South Island of NZ when a group of 4 tourists- Karl, Vicki, Nicole, and Marilyn- set out to see the glaciers. The 4 tourists spent the day admiring the giant pieces of ice and set off [...]
