Thailand has offically ruined us. We've been here at Thailand's best tourist attraction for 2 days and we have seen it all, well most, after awhile they seem to look the same so we skipped a couple. As you can see by the pictures the ruins are very old and pretty cool. Ayutthaya the site of all the ruins was the capital of Thailand back in the 17th centry for over 400 years, until dun.. dun.. the burmese sacked the kingdom after 2 years of presistent attacks. This feat was not an easy one, as the Kingdom had over a million people so the temples are miles apart, which made biking to them an all day affair. Yes i said biking to them on a single speed bike as old as the ruins thenselves, no easy ... read more

Well we are both feeling much better since our last blog, although still kicking the last of whatever bug got us. We've spent the past few days touring/shopping our way around Bangkok, although mainly shopping and just walking around. It took a couple days of searching but I found someone to make my wedding dress (Yay!) and Trevor and I both are having suits made (work type suits). Talking to tailors is pretty exhausting...trying to figure out when they are bullshitting you and when they are giving you a good deal. Trevor is a great negotiator though so we've been able to get fair prices. It's funny though when we initially started shopping around we didn't know much about the different fabrics and asked similar questions to each of the tailors and got totally different answers ... read more

Due to the great distance, we decided to break up our journey to Bangkok by stopping a few places for an overnight stay. February 17th: Took the Ferry to Phuket where we stayed for one night. We stayed in Phuket Town which wasn't all that impressive. Definitely saw signs of the rampant prostitution that the area is known for. February 18th: Took a LONG bus ride from Phuket to Chumphon. This took basically all day and was another rather windy route that had us swearing off bus travel for a while by the end, trying to hold our lunch at every turn. Being that it was a "local" bus, they really packed the people on and we stopped a million times to take on more passengers or let others off. Luckily we smelled worse than the ... read more

We took a bus from Pak Bara to Trang, where they off loaded us from a scary little mini-bus to a double decker super VIP bus, decked out in all pink decor and a TV playing endless Thai Karaoke videos, which all pretty much sounded the same, but luckily nobody was singing. When we got to Krabi, the bus dropped us off in the non-touristy part of town, so we got a tuk-tuk into town (after walking a ways and realizing we had a long way to go). We actually turned down several tuk-tuks because they were overloaded already but they wanted to put three westerners and their backpacks in (seeing nothing but dollar signs) but we insisted on waiting for one with more room, which worked out well since we met a local guy who ... read more

Overall Malaysia was full of nice people, we only got ripped off a couple times (and only by a little bit). They don't have a lot of sites to see, which is probably why we didn't see as many tourists there. Another reason you don't see a lot of tourists and sites is that so much of the country is covered in palm oil trees, trash, typical water pollution. Also, the sidewalks are a bit dangerous at times...grates seemed to be ready to collapse underfoot at any moment and many already had, leaving a gaping hole in the walkway. I think there are more motorbikes than cars, although from what we hear, this is true all over southeast Asia. The food was good but there wasn't a lot of variety; we always leaned toward the ... read more