The Traveling Tigress

So, yesterday I went to the elephant trek place, and after haggling a bit convinced them to do a three hour trek for 1000 baht ($25). I’m acclimated enough to local pricing that this made me wince severely (that’s about equal to my entire food + hotel bill for the four days here…so definitely foreign-tourist [...]

Well, I made it to Ko Chang with very few mishaps. Ten hours by bus, the back of a pickup, and ferry, plus incidental waiting time. (Here “Thai time” doesn’t mean a pretty good Thai restaurant on El Camino, but the happy tendency of the 5pm ferry to turn into the 6pm, 7pm, or 8pm [...]