Back in Krabi

If piracy is so rampant in Asia, and it does appear to be as you can pick up any movie you want off the street, then why doesn't everyone have MS Word on their computer? At the very least they could have Open Office. Oh well, I suppose everyone is just going to have to be subjected to my horrible spelling for another blog.

We are now back in the sleepy town of Krabi. We decided that since we weren't getting sun and the accommodation was cheaper and food far better that it really just made more sense to return here. This time around our boat ride was a little more interesting. As it had been raining earlier the sea swells were a quite large and the trip took almost twice as long. It never really felt like we were in trouble, but it was an interesting experience to be in swells bigger than our little boat.

Our driver though handled everything with ease and appear calm the entire time.

I don't have a ton of stuff to talk about as I just blogged yesterday and we really just traveled today so I'm going to add a couple observations about the trip so far. Before that though, Anthony, Mike and Morgan did have a neat experience this afternoon. I sadly had to skip out on it as I am still not fully recovered (which made the boat ride additionally interesting for me). The boys went out to the Tiger Temple today and apparently it was one of the craziest things they've seen on the trip. From what I gather there is this temple on top of this mountain that you have to climb up 1300 stairs to get to (600m in height). Once up top there is a cool golden Buddha and some amazing views of the area. I on the other hand took a nap and read some of my book. I am feeling considerable better this evening however, so hopefully I will be back up to speed by tomorrow when we are looking at doing a boat trip to the Phi Phi islands.

One thing in Thailand that none of us have gotten used to yet is the fact that many of the doorways are shorter. I can't even count how many times I have hit my head because I forget to duc k going through a door. What makes it worse is that I always tend to hit my head in the same spot which is just right at the top of my head. It almost feels like I am skinning myself every time I do it. I've been a little better today, but my head still very much smarts from all of its previous encounters with doors.

Another interesting thing, and something I kind of expected having been humid places before but had forgotten about is always feeling wet. It is very weird to never feel dry except if you happen to be i n your air conditioned hotel room. You come out of the water and you are wet, you walk out of the room and you are wet, you are in a hotel without AC (which is cheaper) and you are wet. It does keep your skin nice and soft but I'm not sure that I like the trade off of always feeling damp.

My last note is that one side effect of having to use the washroom as much as I have during the last two days is I'v

e gotten pretty good at using the 'butt-sprayers' that is the main cle aning device here. At first I wasn't sure that I liked this as this too contributes to the feeling of overall dampness but it does have a rather interesting upside. You use far less toilet paper, and as a result you cut down on possible chaffage. This has been a rather pleasant surprise and has made my bathroom experiences much more kind.