In the happy island place after a long trip...

Alicia and I have made it to the island of Koh Tao, in SE Thailand.

We a trying day yesterday of Alicia feeling terrible. While she was able to move around, her energy level is super low. We found some palatable food for her in a nearby shopping center, though the trip there and back on the Skytrain was difficult for her. We then made our way to the train station for our scheduled six-hour trip to Chumphon where we were going to stay the night.

Of course, our train luck dictated that the train ran slow AND broke down so the six hour trip took far longer. We were scheduled to arrive at 9:45PM, we got in at 2:00AM.

There was lots of nonsense (mostly funny) via our fellow passengers, but that will need to wait for another time.

Today we took a nicely run ferry ride to the island on glass smooth ocean water. On arrival we of course got ripped off by the local taxi drivers (who act as a cartel together to extract money from tourists) and then found ourselves at our reserved bungalow which was directly in front of a large construction site (which we were of course, not told about).

I went off looking for another room and after some hoofing, found a simple little bungalow right off the beach. It has been fine minus the massive, 2 inch long flying cockroach Alicia found in the bathroom.

The news currently has news about government protests in Bangkok. Not good for the country, but they really pose no danger for us as the protesters have no motivation to target tourists. We may however re-evaluate how much time we spend in Bangkok at the end of the month.

So far Koh Tao is beautiful, very tropical, and without a doubt, the most touristy place we've been on our trip. That said everything here is easy with lots of food for Alicia to eat (as eating Thai, especially for her, is difficult after our sickness).

Internet is absurdly expensive here, so I will be off!

-Jonathan