As soon as we decided to go to Tachileik, Myanmar for our first border run, my maximizer tendencies kicked in and I started checking to see if there was any way to go to Laos when we would be so, so close. The answer was Yes! So after our border…
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After our border run to activate our 2nd visa for Thailand, we drove about 30 minutes southeast to an area known as the “Golden Triangle”. Here the Ruak River meets the Mekong River which form the borders between Myanmar, Laos and Thailand. Back in the day, this area was the…
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While we were vacationing on Koh Samui, I was able to go scuba diving twice while Chuck watched the kids. The first time I went to Chumphon Pinnacle and Twin Rocks off the coast of Koh Tao with CSI: Samui. I was REALLY hoping to see a whale shark on…
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After spending our first week in Thailand in Bangkok, we popped down to Koh Samui for a week. Of course we had to go the cheap (read: stupid) way which involved flying AirAsia from Bangkok to Surat Thani, picking up our bags and boarding a van to a bus terminal…