today we spent pretty much the whole day traveling. in the morning we took this really long boat ride back to the mainland. it was about 3.5 hours and after that we had a 2 or 3 hour long bus ride that took us to the town of sarathani. we arrived tired and exhausted and knew that we still had several hours to go to get to krabi where we wanted to be by night time. we soon found a place to eat, and the food that we got was not very good. actually this whole restaurant was pretty gritty and i wasnt even sure what some weird little seed type things were in my food. we then hired a minivan to drive us the rest of the way to krabi. the drive was fairly long and most of us wavered between sleeping and listening to walkmen on the way. the minivan driver was a maniac like all the other drivers around here and we definitely feared for our life several times thru the trip. one time, when we were going about 60 miles an hour, another van, that was trying to pass us on the wrong side of the road, got within several feet of crashing into us cause it had to swerve away from another truck barreling toward it. yikes!
finally, by night, we arrived in the town that we were going to. it was a long day, and we really didnt get to do hardly anything… but yet is was still kind of cool. it’s weird how i really end up having a great time here no matter what i do. even down time… i just look at it as time spent relaxing in thailand and hanging out w/ friends. i’m becoming so relaxed on this trip that i’m really starting to not care about much. anything that happens is cool, an i just sit back and enjoy it all. it’s all just an adventure right? any adversity just adds to the quirkiness of the trip.
the hotel that we checked into was on the expensive side (at least for here it was expensive 450B, 11$) but the rooms were nice (i.e. hot water, air conditioning etc). after living in little shacks for a few days, it was good to be treated to some of the luxuries of back home. heh.
-v