the bus picked us up at 11 and we got budged onto the bus by fellow backpackers, one of which took up the last available seat with his backpack. Adeline found a seat and I was left to sit on the cargo in the aisle, but someone got off and I got to sit next to a guy who kept staring at me so I was afraid to fall asleep for fear he'd try to touch me. someone else got off and the seat next to Adeline freed up, unfortunately it was the shortest seat on the bus and my butt [View Full Entry]

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after I posted my last blog I went back to my room to read and I was starting to doze off when I heard a familiar voice right outside my room asking for Alexis Jones and I yelled "Adeline?!" and she was here a day early. after that we've been eating a lot, drinking a lot of Beerlao and renting bikes and going in waterfalls. today we were going to bike out to a waterfall and we found out the price was the same to tuk tuk so we did that instead and the driver told us he would stay there [View Full Entry]

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it was hard, but I left Vang Vieng, it's the kind of not real place that's hard to leave. I think places like it are a little weird cuz they cater towards foreigners too much with the restaurants playing Friends constantly and all of the drugs being consumed. one girl staying in the same bungalows as me told me that there was more to do there than where I am now, Luang Prabang, but all she seemed to do was sit on her porch and smoke weed which you could do pretty much anywhere. so I took a bus through the [View Full Entry]

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alright, so let's see if I can remember everything that's happened up until now... I had to part with Maya cuz she's off to New Zealand to work on a farm, it was a mixed blessing, I was sad to see her go but it's also kinda nice to be on my own again. i didn't cry though. thank goodness! took an overnight train to the boarder of Thailand and Laos, go to sleep accross my 2 seats and then I get shaken awake because the person whose seat I'm slumped accross has finally gotten on, man it was hard to [View Full Entry]

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just to let you know I'm alive did in fact see Dorie and Nemo Helene! they send their love just in Bangkok for less than a day and heading on to Laos, plans change all the time folks get used to it... haha peace out Alexis PS looking forward to that email Allan *mwah* [View Full Entry]

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from Koh Lanta we came to Koh Lipe, which is in the Tarutao National Marine Park we missed the ferry by an hour and Maya was on a mission to find some other way to get over here, I was ready to give up when nobody would help us and we repeatedly got laughed at by longtail boat people and such then we were walking past a cargo boat and the guys loading it checked us out and Maya went over and got us a lift on it, 5 am, 300 Baht and we were the only women, only westerners and [View Full Entry]

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okay, here's the scoop: Phuket = not so great, I mean it was okay but nothing really specialI guess, except that we were there at the start of the vegetarian festival so we went to the market and ate really great food for really cheap. We also took a half day trip to Phang Nga to see the mangrove forests and "James Bong Island" from The Man With the Golden Gun. It is not nearly as impressive in person. It's freaking tiny. then there was Koh Phi Phi where I did my Avanced Open Water PADI dive course and it was [View Full Entry]

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okay, so since you last saw your hero she was in Koh Tao got a catamaran to Chumporn (whose name I adore) then a bus to Ranong (kind of a whim but it worked out) where we spent the night and there were cockracohes and I cannot even begin to describe how awful that was, I really couldn't handle it, barley slept, couldn't wait to get out of there. then we went to the hot springs which were actually too hot to put body parts in so we dipped in the river nearby. THEN THE BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD!!! we [View Full Entry]

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hooooookay, so now that I have the time to sit down and type for a while (and have found a more stable internet connection) I will attempt to write a better post. I'll start from after the full moon party again! I went to bed at around 6:30 am and woke up not much later, got in the ole hammock and slept. The next day we crammed our way onto a ferry to Koh Tao where there were already people trying to get us to go to their dive shops. We found one called Cartoon Diver that was cheaper than the [View Full Entry]

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so yesterday I wrote a long and witty post about the good times I've been havin diving and peeling my sunburn but the internet timed out and I lost it, so instead you get this: SCUBA is fun, I love it, I am now a PADI certified open water diver my instructor was a middle aged Canadian who used to run the needle exchange program in Vancouver due to a wild coincidence 2 guys I know from Victoria are on the same island as me, I found this out cuz one of their names popped up when I went to check [View Full Entry]

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