*Part 2 and 3 of Matt and Kyle’s visit will be done once Rob gets his butt in gear and finishes typing them! Until then we are jumping ahead to our time in Vietnam! Enjoy!* Phu Quoc was supposed to be our first stop in Vietnam. It is a little island off of the southern coast. There is a 15 day visa exemption for Americans to go to this island. Our plan was to head from Cambodia overland to Phu…
Finally! Our first visitors! We couldn’t wait to have friends from home come for a visit AND have them be with us for Thanksgiving. What a treat! I (Rob) used to work with Matt at Gentiva prior to setting off on this trip and Kyle was his good friend who he convinced to come along. Neither of them had ever been to Asia before, so we were thrilled to show them what we’d learned about street food, temples and the…
Pai was different from any other stop we made in Thailand, the first reason being the weather. It was cool enough to wear jeans comfortably there at night. This was the first time we felt temperatures below the high 80’s in over a month. We were very pleased. It is a small town up in the mountains that hasn’t been entirely overrun with tourists yet… just hippies. J It was definitely hippy haven there. We checked into our hostel and…