I can finally post Thailand, though we're not quite through yet. We've been eating away our time down South and enjoying some of the world's most remarkable beaches. It seems that every time I'm updating I have excuses as to why we're held up. This month's excuse is passports. Our BRAND NEW passports have run out of space and the Canadian Embassy forgot to tell us that they no longer add pages onto existing passports. Can you believe it??!! So we've applied for new ones and have been told they should arrive within 2 weeks. That was over a week ago. We're currently in Krabi and will be back on our bikes tomorrow heading to the Malaysian border. Once we're there I'll be taking the train back to Bangkok to retrieve our new passports, while Julia keeps an eye on our stuff at the border.
The riding to Krabi was excellent!! Great roads, fantastic people and awesome weather. It was so fantastic that we were able to beat our old record of 145km in one day, to a big-time 177km.....yes we were tired and I'm not too keen on attempting to surpass that one but we'll see. Another good note is we are very close to our 10,000km mark and should be reaching it by the time we get to Singapore, can't wait!!
The beaches have been a thrill with great snorkelling, cliff-jumping, waterfall climbing, scuba-diving, tiger petting and a bit out-of-hand drunkenness.
The tiger petting was a bit weird, since the tiger was on more drugs than the total amount at a Pink Floyd concert and when Julia snuggled close to it he let out a moan like he had a bad case of Moroccan diarrhia....I felt his pain. On the other hand, my tiger was on the ball!! He had his good coveralls on and he was running around the zoo collecting rabbits....what a guy!!
