After Vientiane our plan was to head south to Malaysia, Singapore and, eventually, Indonesia. However, all of southern Thailand lay between us and the next part of our adventure. We wanted to travel by train and, logistically, it made the most sense to break up the journey to Malaysia with a stop in Bangkok. This had the added benefit of giving us a few days to get reacquainted with a city that totally overwhelmed us when we visited it four…
Chiang Dao Dan and I arrived in Chiang Mai about a week before our friends were scheduled to meet us. That amount of time, combined with the three days we would overlap with them there, seemed like a little long to spend in a city we’d already been to. We did some research and decided that the nearby mountain getaway of Chiang Dao would be a good break from the city for a couple of days. We hopped on the…
Back in 2014 Dan and I took our first big trip together. We spent two weeks exploring Thailand, spending a hectic day in Bangkok followed by almost a week in Chiang Mai and then a week on an island beach. We had been dating for a few years and things were getting serious. Although we weren’t living together yet, we were starting to broach the subject of maybe moving in together. At that point we had never spent more than…
Since leaving Ankor Wat we have been to Kampot and Sihanoukville in Cambodia and then to Chiang Mai, Chiang Dao, Pai and Chiang Rai in northern Thailand. I plan to write about and post pictures of all of these places but for now I’m going to skip ahead for a moment and talk about the last two days which we spent cruising down the Mekong River from Huay Xai at the Laos border to Luang Prabang, where we arrived last…