Chaing Mai

Last night we hooped on a sleeper train for about 11 hours to get here, to Chaing Mai. The train wasn't that bad. I got in a few hours here and there of sleep. We arrived pretty early this morning, checked into the Libra Guest House and set out to decide on a trek. We found one we loved!

Tomorrow we will be taking off in the morning for a three day, and two night, trek into the jungle! We will be riding elephants, bamboo rafts, white water rafting, hanging out wtih the Long Neck Tribe, and staying in native tribe villages. So stoked.

After we found that place, Jordan and Becca rented mopeds.

After the Ayutthaya bicycle situation, they understood that me driving a motorcycle was out of the question :) So I sat behind Becca. I was scared out of my mind at first, but slowly losened up. We drove all through Chaing Mai, and outside of it, up into the mountains and jungle towns. It was the most beauitful thing I have ever seen.






My memory card on my camera is full so I am attempting to download them and get them online for all of you to see. However computers here are not fast, and I do have to pay to use them so as I can, I will add pics to my blog tonight and when I return and upload to my snapfish album.

From now on I am going to upload them more often, to save me from the confusion and worry. I let Becca and Jordan take my memory card first and upload from it, and it deleted the pics they downloaded. Luckily it wasn't too many of them; but there was a cute shot of me and Becca together on the bike that Jordan took. I'll try to reclaim those when I can.

Becca and Jordan went shooting at a place along the road; I decided to save my baht. Then we blew some of it on a monkey show. It was really depressing. :( Poor monkeys on chains and in cages. We didn't know when we walked in it would be that way.

We headed back just as it started to rain; which again, made me a bit nervous; but both Becca and Jordan did a great job! It was amazing...watching everything from the back of a moped, racing around Thailand. :)

We are still the only farang here (that means tourist); and were the only ones on mopeds. :) Obviously there are plenty of Brits and others here at the guest house. But out and about we rarely see anybody that isn't Thai; nor do we encounter people that speak English. It is wonderful here. The further we get from the big city, the more I love it. The food, the atmosphere. Everything.

I miss you all loads! My legs look horrid! ;) Bruises and swelling still from that bike ride and the bugs still get to us no matter how much stuff we put on. It's not that bad, though. Good thing I have a pair of pants. Oh! And, here they washed our clothes and fixed them for us! :) Whew!

Okay, off I go trying to get pictures uploaded. We will be back in three days and I will have tons to write about then, I am sure! Again: love and miss you.