I’m not quite sure what spawned her obsession, but one of the things my mom most wanted to do on her trip to Thailand was go ziplining through the jungle. I had no idea that Thailand even did it, but she got on it herself and googled it and gave me some helpful information. It [...]
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Flight of the Gibbon
Posted in Thailand, tagged Chiang Mai, Thailand, zipline on May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Do Not Trust Wily Strangers
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My mom and sister first arrived in Bangkok about midnight. Megan and I met them at the airport and went straight back to our hotel, which was in an area of Bangkok called Sukhumvit. It’s outside the city center, which means less hostels, hotels, guesthouses, and tourists, and more local Thai people and expats who [...]
A Little Taste of Home on the Other Side of the World
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I was both excited and a bit nervous when my mom and sister booked their flights to Thailand last December. Excited obviously because by the time we did meet up with them in May it would have been about 7 months since I had last seen them. Nervous because none of the four of us [...]
The Island Life
Posted in Thailand, tagged beaches, Thailand on May 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
One of our first stops in Thailand, other than Bangkok, was an island in the Gulf of Thailand, not terribly far from Bangkok and even closer to the Cambodian border–Koh Chang (elephant island in Thai). Upon arriving in Koh Chang, we headed straight for a town called Lonely Beach, which is no longer exactly lonely, [...]
Sook Sun Wan Gerd, Adam
Posted in About Us, ~Meg, tagged random musings on May 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »
As Adam and I were preparing for this trip, people would say to us “Are you sure you know what you’re getting into?” This phrase often meant, “Are you prepared to be living out of a backpack, spending half your time on buses and, well, let’s just say, reevaluating your standards of what constitutes acceptable [...]
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