Category: 2008

If it’s going to rain, today is the day because we’re going on a 3 ½ hour kayak trip through a mangrove forest near Krabi, Thailand. I added a video, “Kayaking in Krabi Mangrove Forest with Monkeys” by Mantas Jarusevicius to give you a sense of “being there”. For me watching the video brought instant memories but in my journal was a very different...

We’re on the road early this morning to go to our next home-away-from-home in Ao Nang, a resort town on the Andaman coast. We’ll travel on a songthaew, a passenger vehicle created from a larger truck or pick-up. Just climb in the back with your bags and wait until it’s full. It’s about a 40-minute ride to Ao Nang. Our room at P.K. Mansion...

On Wednesday, August 20 we catch a bus to Rantau Panjang, a Malaysian town and major foot border crossing to Thailand. Our bus is fully air-conditioned and gives us much relief on this sunny, 90+ degree day. We arrive Rantau Panjang and walk to the border at 10:30 am and by 11:30 am with paperwork completed we’re walking into Sungai Golok, Thailand. Our first...

It’s time to pack our backpacks and go to Thailand. Andy goes for one more swim, before we embark our 11 am water taxi to sadly leave the beautiful Pulau Perhentian Island. Our small boat delivers us to a 32-passenger boat that takes us to Kuala Besut jetty where we were, just four days ago. Andy is always figuring out what’s next and I...