Sorry I am not updating this too often (for anyone that is actually reading….). I have been pretty busy after leaving Jenna in Bangkok. I took the night train with no issues to Chiang Mai, and met all the other volunteers at our hotel, the YMCA of Chiang Mai. I had met most the other vols in April, so it was more of a reunion. The first night we had some Thai hotpot, which was a lot of fun with our group of 40 or so.We had 4 days of culture classes (i.e. if you...

I'm back in Bangkok, after almost two weeks of traveling with my sister. Sorry I have not updated the blog until now, but we have been pretty busy. After arriving in Bangkok with no issues, we decided to go to the temples at Angkor Wat in Cambodia. It was my second time visiting there, but Jenna's first. We took the bus from Bangkok, and thankfully the road in Cambodia was actually paved. Last year when I was visiting, it was still a dirt road with tons of pothol...

Hi. Wanted to update before I head to Laos tomorrow. I am back in Chiang Mai, pretty much doing nothing but sitting around during the day and going out with a group of people I met at night. I needed a few days to just relax. After I left Pai, I booked a second class night bus to a city near the Lao border. The next day I was complaining to my Dutch friend that I didn't want to take the damn second class night bus. Her response..."well then don't." Hm...

Hi, just wanted to write a quick update. I am currently in Pai, Thailand, which is a small town about 4 hours from Chiang Mai. It is nice, but very quiet. It is a backpacker town, so there seems to be more white people than locals. After I returned to Bangkok, I flew to China and spent 4 days with my friend Kaitlan, and her sister, in Zhuhai. I had forgotten how much more difficult it is to travel in China (if you can't speak Chinese). Luckily, I met a really fr...

Hi, I am back in Bangkok after about 10 days on the Thai beaches. I just put shoes on for the first time in about 2 weeks...kind of a weird feeling, you know what I mean? I am not much of a beach person, but it's hard not to have fun in southern Thailand. I first went to Ko Phi Phi, which is a beautiful island in the Andaman Sea. I stayed at the Rock Backpacker, which wasn't the nicest place I stayed, but was probably the most fun. Phi Phi was just one big party....