It’s 5:00 am. Lucas is banging on my door
to wake me up. Our flight’s in two hours—we’re headed to Thailand. And yeah,
you guessed it, none of us received our typhoid shot. However that’s okay. Mary Todd
Lincoln died of typhoid and he or she married Abraham Lincoln, the president who
helped abolish slavery and vampires. Circumstances might be worse.
We make it to the airport with an hour or
so of wiggle room. Issues are going as anticipated, examples: Uber to airport was
late, had some chocolate eggs for breakfast to have a good time Easter, et cetera, et
cetera.
T-minus 60 minutes till our flight, we go
by customs. To have a good time the second, I whip out my cellphone and begin taking
a video of my mates. Then I see an intimidating girl wearing yellow stomp
her manner in the direction of me. She’s sporting a Grinch-who-stole-Christmas look, and he or she’s
now about 11 inches from me. She tells me that recording in an airport may
rating me a $420 wonderful and reserved seat within the airport’s database. Talked myself
out of the wonderful, however I nonetheless made it into the database. Nice begin to
Thailand.
There are heaps of tales I may inform
about Thailand, so I’ll seemingly separate the journey into not less than two weblog posts.
Our journey began in Phuket (It’s not pronounced the way you suppose), after which we
took an affordable flight to Bangkok.
Phuket is a really attention-grabbing metropolis. For
starters, the way in which folks drive is INSANE. Makes Memphis appear like baby’s play.
We nearly received into a couple of crashes, however that’s a part of the expertise. We had
booked a Villa in Phuket upfront, but it surely didn’t stay as much as expectations.
There have been profanities written on the partitions, bugs and roaches had already moved
in, and none of us actually wished to remain there for 4 days. So, the following morning
after one evening, we moved to a hostel that was a lot better.
We began off the journey with an tour
to an elephant sanctuary. When you ever plan on going to 1, you’ve received to be
very specific on the place you go. Some don’t deal with the elephants correctly. Ours
revolved round mud-bathing and washing the elephants. It was superb, and we
ended the day with a home made Thai meal ready by our hosts.
The subsequent day we went on a visit to the Phi
Phi islands—which was by far my favorite a part of the journey to Thailand. It
began with a pace boat trip to a number of completely different islands. I even tried a
banana for the primary time in over 15 years, and I didn’t hate it. We snorkelled
over a reef (sea urchins are spooky), noticed some dope monkeys, and took in some
tremendous superior sights. Check out a number of the photos!
At evening, we’d stroll Bangla Highway. I’d
describe it like Beale Avenue, however Bangla is a lot extra “Rated M for Mature”
than Beale is. In all probability can’t go into element on a number of the issues that go down
there, however let’s simply say the Hangover Half II isn’t completely far off.
After spending a couple of days in Phuket—we have been
off to Bangkok! Try my subsequent put up for these tales!
