Last Stop: Island Paradise

Our final stop on this grand adventure is a little tropical island off the southern coast of Thailand - Ko Samui. We're staying in the Samui Yacht Club - no sign of a yacht but they do have nice individual cabins just steps from the beach, a pool and a pretty good bar/restaurant where we've been taking all of our meals. Both the ocean water and the pool are pretty warm but still refreshing when the sun is beating down.

This has been a really nice, relaxing end to all the travels. We mostly just read, sunbathe, eat, and sleep all day. Oh, and we found a tailor who custom-made us some nice new suits for work (which starts <gasp> in about 12 days). Our hotel is isolated which is nice because it means a quiet, private beach but when we tire of the menu at our hotel's restaurant we have to walk about 30 minutes down the highway to get to Lamai Beach which is a collection of souvenir shops and other tourist traps. Today we took the hotel shuttle down to Chaweng Beach - the main beach and center of activity on the island. Hopefully we can find some mini-golf or another bowling alley to keep us occupied until the shuttle returns at 4:30pm.

Hard to believe we're flying out tomorrow. We've got some time in Bangkok before our separate flights out but we're still debating whether to spend that time in the airport or take a cab into the city for a few hours. There really is not much to do at the old Bangkok Airport (the brand new fancy one is opening soon) so we'll see...

The blog entries after this will be infrequent at best - I may send something out when I get to London if there's anything interesting to report! Otherwise, thanks so much for checking in on our travels. We miss you guys and hope to see you/talk to you all soon!

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Part of trip: Summer Travels 2006

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