So after several bouts of food poisoning, missing India, turning my nose up at tourist traps and calling Michael to tell him that I am homesick and want to come home, I am finally liking Thailand! It's been a bumpy ride but I feel like I have settled in now, especially now that I am in Northern Thailand where there are mountains, temples and culture! I originally arrived in Phuket from Singapore and did what everyone does... made a beeline for Phi Phi Island. So Phi Phi itself was amazing, the sea was turquoise, the sand was white, the fish swam around your ankles the scenery was magnificient but unfortunately, you have to share it with a million other tourists. After spending 2.5 months in India, such a spiritual, cultural and sexually repressed placed, Phi Phi
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