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January 24-25: Pulau Langkawi Carol and I had a long journey from Koh Lanta to Langkawi, a 7+ hour journey, mostly by ferry. The first ferry wasn't full to capacity, so I had a whole row of seats to myself for most of it. The only problem was the exhaust fumes were pretty strong, so I had 6 hours of breathing in exhaust fumes inside and outside on the roof of the ferry. Needless to say, I had a bit of a cough when we finally got off the boat. We had to go through Thai immigration on the island of Koh Lipe. So the ferry dropped a bunch of us off on a floating pier where we waited for 30min, waiting and waiting for someone to come back with our passports after they'd been stamped ... read more

Bangkok: Jan 13-15 I left Delhi on Jan 12 at 8pm (not 10pm as I thought!!) and flew the lovely cheap Air Asia to Bangkok. I shared a cab with 2 Americans to Khao San Rd where my hostel is located near. The cab dropped me off in the middle of the madness that is Khao San at 4am. For anyone that's been to Khao San, you know how crazy it is. Khao San Rd is also known as Bangkok's backpacker ghetto. It is littered with tons of hostels, restaurants, bars, street vendors and loads of drunk foreigners just walking and dancing on the street. I had the joy of navigating through it all with my backpack. After roaming around for 20min or so I was finally pointed in the right direction and found the hostel ... read more

Delhi: Dec 29-30 Melissa and I arrived in Delhi at 3 am on December 29th. We were picked up at the airport by a very sketchy driver in a very sketchy car. The drive was fine and we arrived Old Delhi at Hotel Tara Palace. The room was decent, just what we needed: beds and a bathroom with running water. The next morning we walked around Old Delhi to the Jama Masjid and the Red Fort/Lal Quila. The Jama Masjid is free, of course that didn't stop a guy from trying to charge us 200Rs for a camera charge. He literally shooed us away and told us to find Gate#3. We were at Gate#2, after finding Gates 1, 4 and 6, we did find 3 just as the mosque was closed for prayers! So off to ... read more

So I'm staring this blog from my family room at home. I'm leaving tomorrow on this grand adventure that will last 3.5 months. I've been wanting to go on a trip like this for a long time. I've travelled quite a bit, but this will be the longest continous journey I'm taking. I will start this trip off flying to Delhi, India with my friend. From India I will be be travelling to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Nepal before meeting up with my family for a final loop around India before flying back to Toronto. I'm hoping I will keep this blog up-to-date. I've never blogged before. I usually just post up pictures and comments on facebook, but I thought I'd try something new. So bear with me if it doesn't look pretty, or if I ... read more