The travels of Justin

Day Four in Koh Samet and our sunburns are starting to heal enough to really enjoy the warm ocean water again, though not without a good lathering of SPF 50. We haven’t really explored the island, and don’t really intend to, but we’ve walked out of the park to visit some local businesses. I [...]

We woke up late on Thursday morning, a little unsure our bus would arrive in Banphe early enough to catch the ferry (really just a small boat) to the island of Koh Samet. “What the heck,” we, the bold travellers said to each other. We boarded the public bus expecting difficutly with language, etc. [...]

We’re back in Bangkok after another bus ride across the “dancing road” from Cambodia. Tina and I just had a wonderful Shrimp Wun Ton soup and some drinks and headed to a web cafe. We’ve got to figure out where we want to stay tomorrow when we get to the island of Koh Samet, which [...]

Well we went for the sunset, but just after we climbed a steep path, and then almost-vertical-temple-stairs to get a beautiful view….. the rain came pouring down. It’s not just lots of rain, it’s big fat rain. At least it’s warm.
Within minutes we were soaked to the bone, and most tourists were heading for their [...]

Tonight will be our last night in Siem Reap, Cambodia. It’s been fun, to say the least. Speaking of the temperature, yesterday was the hottest day — 38°C and very little wind. I bought a 2 t-shirts at Angkor Wat and although I couldn’t seem to get much better than 2 for $5 USD, I [...]

After a grueling 29 hours in transit (including layovers) we made it into Bangkok. We were very jet lagged and almost didn’t go out the next morning (yesterday). On our way to an ATM, we met a young Thai woman who started chatting us up. She wrote down a list of temples for us to [...]

Our plans have changed and we could really use a ride from the Airport when we come home.
Would someone be willing to pick us up at the airport on September 4th @ about 3 pm?
We can afford a taxi, but it would much more fun to meet friends and hang out. Please email me if [...]

The bags are packed and we’re about as ready as we can be. Tina did a great job of rolling our clothes so small that everything fits really well. I convinced her that she probably didn’t need two baseball caps, and all in all I think we’ve packed very reasonably.
Tonight we’ll stay with Tina’s dad [...]

We’ve heard that traffic in Bangkok can be really terrible. I just booked our hotel, the Thai Cozy House, for the first two nights. The clerk guessed that at around midnight, the trip from the airport to downtown Bangkok would take one-and-a-half to two hours. By my estimate that is a ~20 km journey. She [...]

A few days ago, Tina and I left Kamloops to visit my mom. It’ll be much harder to see her on Vancouver Island once school starts, so we decided to hit the road while we’re free to travel.

We left Kamloops with our first priority of arriving at a doctor appointment with our family doctor in Burnaby. In the rush to get there, everything was going great and then…