Ok. So things got a little bit better here. The weather still isn't great, but I really had no choice, and I've just had to deal with it. It's kind of a waste to go to the beach and not go swimming, so when the rain slowed down around 4:30 I figured I might as well get a bit of swimming in. I played around in the waves for around half an hour, and then the rain started back up again. It was still warm, and the rain didn't really pose too much of a problem, a...

I made it to Ko Chang, although I'm not sure it was worth the trip.  It's been raining hard for the past 24 hours, and there's only so much you can do when it's pouring.  I decided to make the journey straight from Pai, which meant 27 hours straight of either sitting on buses or waiting in the bus terminals.  After all that, I'd think that the weather could at least cooperate for a little bit.  The trip down from Pai wasn&#...