A Travel Day: Tempers Left at Check In.
Gazillions of Italians, Germans, Swedes and Brits, each family with numerous squawking children, numerous over-sized bags, all starting their Easter vacations, all exhausted from their connecting flights from all over the world,...
A Day of Ghosts
We plan a quiet day of internet updating and beach. We wake up and have a wonderful breakfast at the hotel – all fresh fruit, fresh squeezed juice, and coffee made in an automatic machine. We head to the internet café we found...
Even in Paradise, There Are Bills to be Paid.
Breakfast by the pool at 8, to say goodbye to Tony and Graeme. Tony has stopped in Phuket on his way home from a business trip to Europe, and today he heads to Singapore for a couple more days R&R. Graeme will stay in Phuket...
41 Degrees in Chiang Mai, Thailand
It is the hot season here, which means it is the dry season. We saw in this morning’s newspaper that yesterday the temperature here in Chiang Mai reached 41 degrees. We head out early – me to book a trek for tomorrow,...
A Songkran Day With Elephants and Mahouts
This Songkran morning does not start auspiciously – the minibus that is to pick us up for our day in the country-side around Chiang Mai does not appear. Finally, we head out of town, and after about 45 minutes, we stop. Our guide...
Drunk on Songkran: A Wet,Thai Adventure
Songkran is full on. You don’t want to leave the hotel lest you get soaking wet. And I mean soaking wet. Today is the first day of the “official” three days of Songkran and we grab breakfast and decide to hightail it out of town....
Avoiding Happy Songkranners
I head out early to scout around. There is nobody on the street, so I am safe, for the moment, from the happy Songkranners. But the streets of Surawong are deserted. This is the most important day of Songkran, and it appears that...
Isn’t This What Travel and Discovery is All About?
Bye Bye Bangkok and Thailand We have seen many different and wonderful things here, and both marvel at and question the relaxed views on sex in Thailand. We would comment daily on the number of young men and women on the arms of...
Night-Time Arrival: Mumbai
We arrived at Mumbai airport about 9:30 last night. We were met at the airport by a driver and our contact here in Mumbai, and we drive the very short drive to our hotel. The condition of the streets reminds us of both Bali and...
Early Morning Prayers
We are on the road by 8:00 this morning with a “hail” to the honking car drivers of India. We have learned a lot from our expert young driver Manu – he can navigate the best of the worst of Ahmebadad’s congested roads. From the...