Ok everyone, I know I know. I'm lazy you say. But you have to know, I've tried to post two big long blogs now and I thought both had worked when in fact neither of them did. I got pissed off and decided that I wouldn't do any more blogging. My mom has convinced me to give it another try and instead of posting myself I'm gonna write blogs and send them to her to post for me. I'll see if that works better. Instead of going over everything from the last three weeks I'm going to give you all the address to my cousin Danielle’s blog. She's been travelling with me and will be with me for another two weeks. Her site is here I'll try to write about the everyday things that we do and the adventures that we go through.

One tragedy I can report to everyone though is about the rapid use and impending depletion of my Royal Toilet Paper. My god, nothing but one ply sandpaper from here on out. Either that or a wet bum crack if I use the bum sprayer instead of paper. It sounds easy but I'm not too sure about the squat toilets with the sprayers so I think I'll stick to the sit toilets with the paper.

The girls are right now down at the night market having some great cheap food. I slept a little later than I had planned for my nap so after I send this blog I'm going to head down and meet them at a restaurant where we go to watch movies at night and drink beer. I think I'm addicted to Carlsberg beer. Good stuff that. We are staying at the Cha Guest House right now. I've stayed here many times before and there is a great family who runs the place. They let us have hot water for free (only place so far) so we can go to the super market and buy noodle soups to make. We've been doing more of that lately to try to save money where we can.

Anyway, yesterday was a long day of driving since we did a visa run to the Malaysian border. We were told to be ready and in the lobby of our Guest House at 6:45am to catch a ride to our bus at 7. By 7:30am our mini van showed up to pick us up and take us to our bus. We left from our guest house, picked up some more people to fill the van and then set off on our way. Not for the bus station like we thought but for the City of Hadyai (or Hat Yai). Over four hours in a Mini-Van. Not too bad actually but I thought I would let the ladies on first to be polite and got shafted with the worst seat in the van. 4 hours of sitting straight up with a head rest that bent my head to put my chin on my chest. lol No bullshit.

When we got to Hadyai we rented a taxi for 500 baht ($20) and the nice driver took us 55miles to the border, told us what to do, drove us through the border, did a u-turn and brought us back, then drove us back to Hadyai. It was very smooth and actually a little fun instead of stressful like we thought it would be. Corina even took a picture of Danielle and I with the Border Guard who was all smiles. I'll send the pic in a couple of days. Pretty cheap taxi for all that he did for us.

Then we cruised around the city of Hadyai for a bit, had lunch at Micky D's and then went to the travel agent for our ride back to Krabi in another van. I was first on this time and got a good seat. The van wasn't full anyway and it was pretty peaceful on the ride back. Corina talked with an old couple about their respective travels and Danielle and I tried to sleep and listen to music. We got back to town at about 9:30pm and after hitting the Night Market (bbq pork for my soup for me and rice dishes for the girls) we ate and then after some card off to bed. We slept in this morning and after a good breakfast I bought the tickets for the bus and boat trip to Ko Samui.

About 10 minutes later the lady at the desk came to my room and said that there was a big storm over the island and we wouldn't be able to go for a couple of days. So here I sit. Instead of packing and getting ready for the trip tomorrow I'm writing to you all and thinking of renting a motor scooter for tomorrow. I'm in no hurry to do anything. Danielle is the one with a time limit so she is fretting the rain a little but not much.

Anyway, I'll write more often and email more than I have been. Talk to you all soon and wish you were here. Paradise is amazing but I think with family and friends it would be more so. I'm sure I'll survive though. No hint at thoughts of heading home yet. Keep in touch...