So I’ve been traveling a lot lately and quite a bit has happened in the past month. I finished bar tending at my hostel in Thailand, Cate came to see me and we traveled all around Thailand for two weeks, I went to Malaysia and now am in Singapore waiting to leave for Jakarta and Indonesia in about two days. Currently scheming how to find a job in Bali and live there for a month or two.
Asia Trip: Day 91 - Koh Phangan (4/15/19)
Daily Highlights:
Picked up Cate from the ferry
Said goodbye to everyone at the hostel
Everyone was so visibly sad
I will really miss that community and place
Packed up all of my things
I sowed patches from all of the different countries I have been to on my backpack and they look bitchin
Went to Thaan Sadet and moved into our new bungalow
It is right on the water and SO NICE, but it has no A/C and no internet :(
Had dinner on a rooftop restaurant in the jungle on the side of a cliff
Papaya salad, red curry with rice, and ice cold beer
Tossed and turned all night because it was so blisteringly hot with no A/C
Not a bad place to call home for the next few days.
Asia Trip: Day 92 - Koh Phangan (4/16/19)
Daily Highlights:
Didn’t sleep at all because it was so hot
Woke up to see the sunrise - INCREDIBLE
Got coffee and hung out at reception which was a shack on the beach and has sand as the floor
Rented a scooter and went all around the island
Stopped on the side of the road and got shakes (pineapple papaya) from a woman who grew all of the fruit in her backyard
She proceeded to practice her English and show us all of the fruit and which trees they came from in her yard
Got a late lunch
Got another shake - mango pineapple
We got A LOT OF SUN
Came back and found out that we stayed at the wrong place
Our original place was up the hill, but the person at reception told us that we had a reservation at their place
So this one beach apparently has three very different and distinct bungalow businesses, but there are no signs or references anywhere on the beach
Complained and got a two night refund (the woman now hates us)
We hiked up the mountain to go to bungalow business number three (number one was our original reservation - now they are sold out, number two was the bungalow place where we got Shanghaied)
This room was cheaper than originally planned and had A/C and internet
Plus the restaurant was a short, thirty second walk from our room
Cate enjoying her essential iced coffee.
A view from the top of a mountain where we almost got macheted by a local.
Asia Trip: Day 93 - Koh Phangan (4/17/19)
Daily Highlights:
STAYED AT THE BUNGALOWS ALL DAY
Went over a little rickety bridge to an abandoned area
Investigated why an oil tankard was parked in our little slice of heaven - our investigation was inconclusive
Read books in the shade
WATCHED SUNRISE AND TOOK PICTURES
Got coffee
Got great brekkie
Thai omelettes, homemade toast with sunflower butter
Had a little photo shoot on the deck
Showered and then went back for dinner
We had spring rolls, coconut curry, and pineapple fried rice
Asia Trip: Day 94 - Koh Phangan (4/18/19)
Daily Highlights:
We packed up and left paradise for a touristy resort
We took a long cab ride to our resort in Haad Yao
We arrived at the hotel, were lead through a maze of stairs and alleyways entirely uphill to our room
Both went to explore the beach
Cate stayed, I went back to the hotel room, moved the bed closer the TV, watched TV, and then took a nap
Got dinner at a small restaurant on the beach
We got a strange noodle dish that was not ours
Our actual order was a papaya salad, pad kapow and two icy changs
Went to the Secret Bar for a drink and to watch the sunset
I got a Cuba Libre and we listened to Latin music
Felt like I was in Cuba and digged it very much
Did salsa lessons and killed it
THE DANCE INSTRUCTOR WAS EXACTLY LIKE THE ENCOURAGEMENT GUY FROM COUPLES RETREAT - see video reference below
Went back and watched Chef’s Table - the Thailand episode I thought was fitting
We tried to watch Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but the internet was shit
Asia Trip: Day 95 - Koh Phangan (4/19/19)
Daily Highlights:
We slept in and went to Bubba’s Cafe
I got a matcha latte with honey and cinnamon
WENT TO FULL MOON PARTY
Pregamed with a bottle of Sam Song on a quiet balcony at our hotel
We went to Shenanigans (the hostel I worked at) and saw everyone
Got free beer all night
Helped behind the bar a bit
Great seeing everyone
We all hobbled over to the beach and HAD A NIGHT
Jumped through fire
Did a pull up contest
Danced and danced and danced
Stayed out until 5:00am
Asia Trip: Day 96 - Koh Phangan => Krabi (4/20/19)
Daily Highlights:
Woke up at 8:00am and felt like death
Took an 11:00am bus to the Thong Sala Pier
Took a 12:45pm ferry to Surrathani
Took a bus at 3:30pm to Krabi
Got to Krabi at 7:00pm and then took a 1/2 an hour taxi ride to town in a sawed off school bus
Got off the bus and booked the first hostel we saw (SUPER NICE!)
Hands down one of the nicest, if not the nicest hostel I’ve stayed at this whole trip
Got food and then passed out early