To Travel is to Live

The slow boats are an experience for sure. We arrived thinking we would be crammed into a mini boat but it actually turned out we had a bit of space. The seats were ripped out of a bus and the boat made from what looked like old weather boards was about 20m's long. We came prepared with peanut butter rolls? Brought them on the side of the road this was the beginning of so many peanut butter rolls to come. Our first part of the slow boats took 9 hours there is pretty much nothing to do except look at the river bank but it was ever changing, we were even lucky enough to see some wild elephants grazing by the water ?. We saw a number of children jumping off rocks and a few flashing ... read more

Here we go..... #3. Woke up to Josh with his head between his legs. Good one, Anna managed to pass it on. But anyway...breakfast at our local (the downstairs cafe , we think they almost knew our orders off by heart) and before we knew it our guide was outside looking for us. So we quickly finished our toast, put our coffees in takeaway cups and headed for the van. Baanchang Elephant Park here we come. A well known rescue park for elephants who are ready to retire or have been rescued from bad situations. All money paid for entry goes towards maintence of the park and feeding of the elephants. Josh managed to keep it in untill we arrived at the park then scurred away tothe toilet. We changed into some yolo looking clothes all ... read more

We made it to the land of Thai after freaking at Kuala Lumpur airport as we watched the rest of the people waiting for our plane pull out their visas, but we played it cool and before we knew it we were bartering with our first taxi driver in a Shiney pink van. We greeted Michelle with our new friend real leather (Picture below!) we adopted him at the McDonald's in Kuala Lumpur airport and we have vowed to take him around the world. He's pretty chilled once you get to know him. Our hostel was right in the middle of sukimvit on a bustling side street, We waved down a Tuktuk and headed into Patpong the famous market street, josh was inundated with offers from lady boys but he politely declined. We sat down and ... read more

Our love hate relationship with airports begins at "Sidney" - according to LAN airways that is the correct spelling and I think closer to its correct pronounciation. Once the tears finished flowing and we made it through the departure gates we headed for our first set of wings, making it through customs without a second glance (but not without our first family selfie). Our flight began with the plane crew flippin' the bird at their mates coming off the previous flights, and listening in on a hippies conversations about 'Abdoriginals' and her interactions with their culture on her previous visit to Australia. We have also bumped into an old Asian man with a straight cut mullet and we sat next to a lady who wore her sun hat and sunglasses for the entire flight, how disappointing ... read more