Boatload

This was a pretty cool picture I took in Krabi town, Thailand. Hope he gets the 10 cent bottle refund.

Tigertastic

Tiger A, wants in on the water, pondering a move:

Tiger A, pounces:

Tiger B, making a comeback:

Roti

Thai roti, not to be confused with Indian roti, is a rolled up crepe-like desert pancake, usually sweet, typically filled with condensed milk and bananas. Here in Krabi, we sampled it nightly, whipped up in saute pans in carts alongside the streets.

Huh?

Why am I still posting things from travels that happened nearly 6 months ago one might ask? With the barrage of traveling from May-August, combined with school, graduation, thesis, visitors, moving, starting a new job, and life in general, I never really got around to posting much of it, especially from the whirlwind southeast asia trip. And there was a lot of it. I recently managed to print my 2011 posts into a hardbound book. I had already done so with 2010. So, I am trying to play a bit of catch up to get what I can down on paper. While I'm still gettig 50-100 hits/day to the blog (mostly organic traffic, a feat in and of itself), I might as well go for the shameless pile up of key words while I still can. I'm not too sure what the plan with the blog is after that. Something more local, surely. Whoever gets automatic feeds from this thing and is rolling their eyes, feel free to allow me to alleviate your suffering :) 

With that said here are some shots from the beautiful Thai island of ko phi phi, where we spent a few days.

Hiking up to one of the island peaks

 

Just another impeccable Thai kitchen that happens to serve up great food

 

Taking a boat for some snorkeling and to a few smaller islands

Fearless captain

Maya Beach. I am impermeable to the color changing effects of sun.

Great fire shows on the beach

Friends we met on the boat, from Kentucky and Buenos Aires. Someone 

can't hold a camera steady.

Feckless use of fire.

Food Bike

The best pad thai in Phuket comes with a motorcycle attached and is consumed on the kiddie stool adjacent to the bike. Lets hope at least the engine isn't running while the food is being cooked.

Moto Times

Zipping through the rural mountains in northern Thailand around Chiang Mai on the back of a tiny motorcycle was one of the funnest parts of the trip through southeast asia. Luckily, Dennis was pretty good at driving the thing. His confidence grew by the hour, as so did my nervousness as my ass hung half off the back of the bike. Pretty soon he was driving like a local, zipping through cars, and using the shoulder (aka madman style). The great thing about being on a bike is that we could easily go where we wanted, making plenty of stops when just about anything caught our eye.

View of Chiang Mai during a pit stop up a nearby mountain

Temple pit stop

Pit stop to snack on some rambutans

Pulled over at this isolated roadside shack for some iced coffee.

Time to walk it.

Letting the bike cool down. The mountains were a little too much for Mr. Engine

Leaving Chiang Mai

Stopping for gas

Swerdlow showing us around on the first day

Stopping at a night market for what else, more rambutans.

Jordan-Thailand

In Jordan I met a German guy at the hostel I stay ed at in Petra, and then went with him and two Dutch girls to Wadi Rum for a night in a Bedouin camp. He told me he was traveling for 4 or 5 months, with stops in Thailand and San Francisco. Never managed to get his contact information so I forgot about it.

Today Dennis & I arrived by boat from Ko Phi Phi island to the town of Krabi. While in Phuket, a Canadian girl recommended a hostel to us she stayed at in Krabi, so we went there after arriving at the Krabi pier. We checked in, and when we went into our dorm room, the germany guy was there! What odds of that!