Motorcycle Driver

Court up early, about 7:30, she went for a run, showered, then lounged in hammocks until I got up.

I got up about 10:00, showered then met her in the restaurant and we ordered breakfast.

When Court got up, it was sunny. When I got up, it had clouded over.

Shortly after 11:00, we walked to the main road and rented a motorbike, 350 baht for 24 hours. We went to an internet place (very expensive internet here!), then drove down to a waterfall, Khlong Phu waterfall, very nice, high waterfall with a pool for swimming at the bottom. Very refreshing, lots of locals swimming, and a few tourists. We jumped in as well. Stayed for about 30 minutes. There was a small cliff that we could jump off of as well, which was fun.

It started to rain a little bit while we were at the waterfall, so we headed back to the hut, but it wasn't raining there, which was good, because our laundry was hanging out on the clothes lines.

We had lunch, did some more laundry, and re-did some of yesterday's laundry, because it still stunk.

About 3:30, we took a motorbike to Bang Bao fishing village, which was cool. Most of the village is on stilts over the water, and they're planning for a tourist boom by the shops and construction going on.

After checking out the fishing village, we drove a little farther down the road to see what was there, and found a couple of small, secluded beaches, then came back to the hut and did nothing.

We went for supper with Lucille (from New York), then Lizzy and Stewart joined us, then a whole bunch of other people. AFter supper, Court and I made some of our coffee, I made mine WAY to strong!!!!

Court and myself and Lizzy and Stewart and Lucille moved to the bar at Tree House and had vodka and pineapple juice...Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. AFter a couple, we moved to the next bar on the beach in search of buckets of vodka that we could share. Finding none, we moved on to the next beach bar. It's called Nature bar, and they didn't have vodka buckets either, so we decided to stay for a couple of drinks (pineapple and vodka again!), and while there, one of the guys running the place did a fire show with a firestick and with poi's. He was a master at both. As you can see, live is pretty hard for us in Thailand. We then headed to Jah Bar, a somewhat happening place, where we got and shared a vodka bucket between the 5 of us. Vodka, Red Bull and Sprite, which we finished in no time flat. Most of it was ice. Lucille went up to complain, but got nowhere. We then got a Sangsom bucket, which was too strong. Stewart and Lucille drank most of it, and they were both hammered. We had our own little private dance party on our little "platform" at the bar. About 1:30-ish (no watch, I have no concept of time anymore), we headed back home.

When we left Nature Bar, the dog at the bar walked with us, up the road (perhaps 5 minutes walk) to Jah Bar, and stayed with us the whole time. When we were leaving, we woke him up (he was sleeping!) and he guided us back to Nature Bar at the end of the night. What a nice doggie!

Jah Bar is cool. It's built on a hill, and you have to take a long set of stairs to get up to it. It has different levels, some built on stilts. If you fall over teh edge, it's a long way down! Very surreal, kind of a Star Wars-y feel to it.


Koh Chang is about 70% undisturbed island rainforest, and it is absolutely beautiful.

Cloudy most of the day, but very humid. No rain at our resort, though.