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MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Thailand and Cambodia Trip Day 22 – December 22 2014 Check out time for the hotel is 11AM and Dad picks us up to take us back to his house to relax for our last few hours. We talked about the trip and reflected on how amazing it was while […]

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Thailand and Cambodia Trip Day 21 – December 21 2014 The parents picked us up from the hotel to get some breakfast. They took us to a restaurant that is owned by one of my Dad’s friends. It was an English restaurant, so we got some Full English breakfasts. Afterwards, we

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Thailand and Cambodia Trip Day 19 and 20 – December 19 and 20 2014 On the 19th, we woke up feeling like hell from the night before. Shots were, indeed, a terrible decision. We laid in bed all day, watching movies and getting takeout from nearby restaurants. On the 20th, we

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Thailand and Cambodia Trip Day 18 – December 18 2014 Unfortunately, the weather was not kind to us in Samui. Winds were strong and it rained often and plenty. Our daylong boat trip was canceled as it was unsafe to travel by boat. Fortunately, though, there are not many better

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Thailand and Cambodia Trip Day 17 – December 17 2014 We had another travel day to get to Koh Samui. Unlike Phi Phi and Lanta, The parents have been here before. We started off with an early morning to pack and be ready for the long drive to the airport

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Thailand and Cambodia Trip Day 16 – December 16 2014 For the first time in about a week, we have an excursion planned that hasn’t been cancelled. Our excursion is a longtail and kayak trip around a couple islands that only this tour group have rights to explore. We loaded

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Thailand and Cambodia Trip Day 15 – December 15 2014 With what we now had as a free day, we decided to relax and explore the island a bit. We ended up mostly bar and restaurant hopping all day long; hitting each beach-side place we could find. We stumbled upon

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Thailand and Cambodia Trip Day 14 – December 14 2014 We packed up again to head to Koh Lanta by ferry. Another pier in which a hundred people are yelling at you, trying to get you to choose their ferry. We picked one and got on board. Only about an

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Thailand and Cambodia Trip Day 12 and 13 – December 12 and 13 2014 I am lumping these days together because we did the exact same thing on both. Originally, we were supposed to go on our second climbing trip on the 12th. Mike’s toe was not looking healed enough and

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Thailand and Cambodia Trip Day 11 – December 11 2014 We woke up very early in the morning, and we were headed to Phi Phi island, rumored to be the party island. We took a packed ferry over and arrived at the hotel around noon. The island was obnoxiously covered