We took an overnight bus from Bangkok to Chiang Mai and arrived quite early the next morning. Just to reiterate... The bus was awful. I've never been so uncomfortable. The seats were so close to each other that my legs felt smushed all night. The seats were also so narrow that I kept banging into Negar every time I tried to get comfortable. We survived, barely, and managed to get a red truck (the taxis in Chiang Mai) to our hostel. Upon arrival we tried to...

Damn, ladies! Back at it again with the blog posts... Yes, I referenced it and no, I'm not sorry. Apologies, dear friends, for the delay in writing these posts! The past few weeks have been quite enlightening (and entertaining), indeed, so let me try to summarize as best I can without boring you to tears. I suppose I'll just start on a little background to this trip as I'm sure many of you are probably wondering whether Negar and I have plans to ever get our liv...