After meeting up with Nate, we all spent a week in Bangkok and met some great people both staying in our hostel and running the art gallery two doors down from us. We went to markets and ate great food and walked for days and days and at the point where it was a little hectic we decided to leave the big city for the country, or rather the jungle. We took a train to Kanchanaburi, then walked for a couple miles, caught a bus for an hour or so, drank a beer and finally hired a man who had a truck to take us six miles up a mountain where we found the Shanti Farm, run by a small family of five (Wan Pen, Mr. Hey, Nat and her two kids Bang and Ben) who we spent the next three days with, doing little more than eating and exploring the surrounding temples and jungles and monkeys chained to shrines.
After the farm we got a free ride down the mountain from a nice man then took the bus back to Kanchanaburi where we spent the next four days at a guesthouse directly on the River Kwai. We had planned to stay there one night as a transfer point back to Bangkok, but we were all too relaxed too often to motivate ourselves to leave. So we spent most of our time reading and eating and walking and then reading again and then avoiding the monsoons which came in every night near dusk.
Right now we're in Bangkok for the last time, staying at a hotel near the train station as we leave tomorrow at 1pm toward Chumphon, where we catch an overnight boat to Koh Tao to spend the next couple weeks living on the islands (Koh Tao, Koh Samui and Koh Phangan) off the eastern coast of Thailand.
Sorry that we haven't posted more pictures, as Kins stated below we're having a hard time with our memory card and Thai computers, but we'll try to post more soon.
Love to all,
B
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