(Français à la fin). We have left Chiang Mai for Sukhothai after 12 days great days. Chiang Mai is a bustling city. Last post I said there were 140,000 people but in fact greater Chiang Mai is over 600,000. We tried to keep the activities to a minimum but it was challenging. Our first highlight was the full day expedition to the Elephant Jungle Sanctuary. Despite the remoteness of the village they thoroughly documented our group (only 7 people with 3 elephants...

Finally starting to relax...the last few days were a little challenging since Léa had a high fever and no appetite, she slept on and off for a few days, and is better today. Adapting to the time change has been challenging for her so she was pretty run down. We were on hold with what to do after arriving on the night train and had to make some decisions about how long and where to stay in Chiang mai, but now all is well and we will be here for the next 9 nights ...

We made it to Bangkok after a very long but luckily uneventful flight on Etihad Sirways via Abudhabi. We managed to check into our rooms early yesterday and promptly all fell asleep around 10am local time and woke up at 8pm...so much for a short nap! We decided to go find some food and walked down to Khao san road where it was very busy with foreigners and locals alike. We decided on a quick pad thai dinner with a few beers ($13 for 5 people!) and just wandered ...

We are waiting for our flight to Bangkok via Abu Dhabi in Toronto. Finally have a few minutes to write as it's been a very busy week selling a car and a few bikes and again culling our lives down some more so we can carry or pull everything we need for almost 9 months. I did write a French blog post after Montreal but never got around to posting it so it will come once we are in Thailand as Internet has been challenging over the last week (strange considering we ...

A few have been wondering where we are...not too worry, we are just busy visiting friends and family and not taking the time to write! After we left Wawa we headed to Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec where my dad is from. We had a great visit and learned a lot about the history of the town which was quite interesting. Noranda was a planned mining town and Rouyn was a more chaotic rural town that sprung up beside it. They are no longer underground mining in Noranda but the ...