Yep, we’re still in Thailand. Originally, we had planned to only spend 3 days in Thailand (Bangkok) and then return to the country here, in Phuket (poo KHET) for a brief stay before the flight to Viet Nam. Phuket is an island that is one of the top resort areas of Thailand. The island is close enough to the mainland that it’s connected by a relatively short bridge. It lies about halfway down the thin sliver of a peninsula that reaches southward to the southern border with Malaysia. It was our intermediate stopping off place last year when my wife, Cheryl, and I went to Ko Phi Phi (KOH pee PEE). We flew from Bangkok to Phuket and were picked up in a resort limo, drove to a marina on Phuket and then a fast speedboat
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