Singapore's Thanksgiving extravaganza was a nice break from life on the road, but as all good things it was over way too quickly and we found ourselves up early on Monday morning to catch a taxi to the airport for our flight back to Bangkok. We decided on making it a grueling day and just busting it all the way up to Chiang Mai in one push...easy enough to write that sentence, but in reality it's a long trip. After landing in Bangkok we took the subway across tow...

Welcome to the City of Angels, the Big Mango; Bangkok, Thailand. It's the kind of place you can read about all you want, but you really have to see it to believe it. Incredible. Unfortunately, before we could get to the good stuff we had to endure yet another hellish journey. Although shorter then some of the others we have recounted, this one was maybe the most acutely painful yet. And since you all seem to enjoy reading about our misery more then our pleasure,...

If I were to ask you with no prior knowledge of the subject (and without having read this blog) which you'd prefer: an overnight train in Germany or one in Thailand. Surely you'd instantly think of Germany's stereotypical obsession with order, rule and efficiency and you'd weigh that against rail travel in any developing nation and you'd go with zee German's, right?! WRONG! Don't feel bad, before this trip I would have said the same. But the fact of the matter is...

Koh Lipe... Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. Just when I thought it couldn't get any more beautiful, any more picture-perfect, Koh Lipe comes along and once again blows my mind. Having been to countless beaches in the past few weeks, I can say with some certainty that this is perhaps the best beach we have encountered. I'm talking fine, white sand, perfect warm aqua-marine blue water that has clarity like I have never seen. Something like 40 meter underwate...

In Thai "Koh Muk" means "Pearl Island" and this beauty definitely lives up to her name. We hopped down to Muk from Koh Lanta by ferry and what a sweet ride it was. After the obligatory 30 minute delay (lest we forget we are operating on Thai time) we pulled out of Lanta and dropped our feet over the side of the boat where they were rhythmically sprayed with water as we buzzed across the turquoise blue Andaman Sea. The full 90 minutes via 2 other small islands was...