http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/MH EV/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from MH EV en-us Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:46:48 UTC Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:46:48 UTC We arrived back in America at SFO February 28 2007. Back to the Bay. Back to family. Back to reality Not so much. Boy are we LUCKYMaybe a touch Spoiled too'Back to Reality' for Mike and myself meant wine and laughter taco feasts soaking in Calistoga catching up with the best of friends the sights of Tahoe snowboarding and reminiscing about times that are sometimes forgotten. Work. http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/Central/Hua-Hin/blog-134143.html While planning this trip I had the occuring feeling that it wasn't going to happen. I guess with an adventure this grand it just seems almost too much fantasy like in a way. Our computer's screensaver in Santa Barbara had a picuture of a beautiful beach in Thailand on it for months. Every once and a while it would change to a waterfall or some other picturesque location but always Thailand. http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/South/Ko-Lipe/blog-129568.html . . . Are Those That Are Unexpected.Laos took us completely by surprise. Our original plan was to jump the border before our Thai Visas expired spend one night in Laos then come right back to Thailand and start heading south. It's now been about a week and we just crossed back to Thailand two days ago. What kept us there was a feeling that we were in a place that was truly special and throu http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Laos/West/Vientiane/blog-126228.html For the next 6 hours Mike and I will be on a bus with air conditioning that doesn't work. We are traveling to Mae Sot. As we slink down the aisle to our seats we notice that the bus was full of Westerners AKA white people. That's no good we are trying to get away from those damn Westerners. The front section of the bus has a group of twenty something mormons on a missionary trip of some sort http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Umphang/blog-123557.html Though it has only been a week since our last blog it feels like much longer We arrived in Chiang Mai in the afternoon on the 16th. Our mode of transportation was an overnight train departing from Bangkok at 10pm the previous night. We were a bit skeptical as to how spending 16hrs on a train would be but we must admit it was very pleasant. The train car we were on consisted of nearly forty http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/North/Chiang-Mai/blog-121253.html Before this blog may begin an apology is in order.An error was made on our last blog. A huge error. A Thank you was not fully given.As Mike and I made made the windy journey by cab to Long Beach on Koh Chang Island Friday afternoon he looked at me concerned and groaned I'm an idiot. He barried his head in his hands and repeated those words.I asked Why whats wrong He told me he made a http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/East/Ko-Chang/blog-118931.html The most repeated quote from Koh Chang We could get use to this. This place is amazing We left Trat for a ferry to Koh Chang what seems like a century ago. Time on this beautiful island seems to pass by without being recognized. We settled down in what we were told was the quitest and best part of the island Lonely Beach. An immediate confirmation of this came when we were the last on http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/East/Ko-Chang/blog-118167.html ByeByeBangkok Hello TratMid afternoon on Saturday...A hop on a bus has lead Mike and I to a magical town called Trat We love it here. Trat is an adorable town where the people are unbelievably friendly and the overall atmosphere is can be sumed up in one word relaxation.We arrived in Trat after a six hour bus ride and were stunned at how different Trat was in comparison to Bangkok. Bangk http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/East/Trat/blog-117006.html To say that the transition into our new lives in Bangkok went seamlessly would be a complete fabrication of the truth. We woke early on Wed. with grand plans for the day. Our hotel comes with a free breakfast buffet so the plan was to get some food then hit the streets. Since we are traveling on a budget the word buffet turned into stuff your face so you don't have to spend money on food for http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/Central/Bangkok/blog-116418.html We made it After a extremely intense day of traveling we arrived safe and sound in Bangkok. Our hotel is super cool thank you MomAlice and we had never been so excited to lay down on a bed.We were so exhuasted and Jet Lagged that the rest of the day was spent relaxing. A little pool time and the worlds most fantastic nap was all we had in us.The plane ride was the most challenging 13 conse http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Thailand/Central/Bangkok/blog-115909.html