Ever since we arrived in S.E. Asia, we (more so Dave) has yet to find Ginger Ale in any restaurant, food stand, 7-eleven or basically anywhere! Not that we desire pop that greatly..with all the fresh fruit juices and shakes. But alas! We finally found ginger ale! It was the most expensive glass of ginger ale we've ever had (15RM or Malaysian Ringitts which equals to..$5!!) this lovely experience occured at the KL Tower 360 restaurant, but we'll get to that. As always I will backtrack to how we ended up sipping on glorious bubbly ginger ale in Kuala Lumpur. We left off departing Koh Tao to venture down to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This little "venture" took an ambitious 18 hours! We took a really cool ferry from Tao to mainland Chumphon. Ferry was called Lomprayah ... read more

We had to take a small break from blogging and any sort of communication via any kind of signal as we've basically had none in the last 4 days. We'll start off by recounting our fun little journey from Kanchanaburi to Surat Thani which is the drop off point to the islands in the Gulf of Thailand. So we decided we were going to be smart and plan our own trip down. Most travel agencies, and it seems like pretty much anyone on the street will offer you some sort of bus+train+ferry+donkey combo to get you down there. We gathered as many "official" train times from as many "official" people as we could find, including several timetables and even looked online when we had a bit of wifi available. Because it seems that everyone tells us ... read more

Let me start out by saying that we are not gullible people...nor are we not educated in the wonderful world of Thai scams. We've read coutless forums, blogs, spoke to people who have experienced this hands on. Even so, we have experienced our first scam. Now before any of our family/friends start worrying, no we will not be needing a wire transfer of any sort, and yes we are competely safe :) Let me start at the beginning. We woke up super early at around 5:30am (dang you jet lag!) Went for breakfast at the sister hotel of D&D, Dang Derm just across the street. It was good, basic and we enjoyed it. At abot 8am we ventured out into the streets around Khao San to find a taxi to take us to Chatuchak (or Jatujak) ... read more