After our long journey, sleep came easy. We intentionally gave ourselves a free morning to rest up and to adjust to the time zone difference. Our booking included breakfast at the hotel. The Ariyasom restaurant is vegetarian and has a nice morning menu of Thai and Western options. I had a ‘Thai omelet’, a…
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September 17th to 19th We left for our 7th and final continent (Asia) on Dick’s birthday, the 17th. Our route takes us to Thailand, Lao, Vietnam and Cambodia over the next six weeks. It was a long trip, ending up being over a 42-hour transit door to door. Pittsburgh to Atlanta, Atlanta to Seoul (15…
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We’re off to visit our final continent – Asia. We start off in Thailand then take a circuitous route through the French Indochina countries of Laos, Vietnam, & Cambodia. It’s a long way to our first stop in Bangkok – some 40+ hours of travel. Then it’s planes, autos, tuk-tuks, longboats, and river vessels. Street…
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Travel day today. We had a driver picking us up early (10:00) for our ride to the airport so we decided to forgo the morning game drive. The staff, however, was excited about a ‘special event’ breakfast out in the bush and insisted we attend. We assumed this was to celebrate Christina and Jeremy’s wedding,…
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