Off to Koh Phangan

Up at 7:30, Erin and I packed and headed to the pier. Saw Rob and Colleen and Tahnie and Sterling on the way and said goodbye to them.

We took a boat from Phi Phi to Krabi, found the tourist agent who we booked through and got bus ticket and a receipt. First we hopped on a mini-bus, which took us to a main bus stop, were we hopped on a big bus with a bunch of other tourists, which took us to Surat Thani (or somewhere close to there). I think the ride was about 3 hours. Both Erin and I slept on the bus. At Surat Thani, they kicked everyone off the bus, then it was mayhem. Half the bus wanted to go to the train station, the other half wanted to go to Koh Samui, and there was Erin and I destined for Koh Phangan.

The non-natives were getting restless, as there were no other busses waiting to take anyone anywhere. He organized a mini-bus to take the Koh Samui people somewhere, and when there were two seats left, told me and Erin to get on as well. The mini-bus left, drove for about 5 minutes, onto a main road, then pulled over and stopped, and started peering out his door behind the mini-bus, looking at traffic coming. AFter a few minutes he told everybody to get out. WTF? Then he said the regular bus was coming. So, another bus change, there wasn't enough seats on this new bus, and I had to stand (along with a bunch of others). A local Thai mom moved over in her seat to Erin could sit down. I had to stand for 1+ hours for the ride to the pier. And the A/C on the bus wasn't working. We got the pier about 3:45, got on the ferry and sat up top. A hotel tout came along and sold us a room at a resort with a pool, weight room, pool table, etc. for 500 baht a night. Accomodations are relatively cheap here. It's called the Power Beach Resort. We are to meet him on the pier when we arrive on Koh Phangan.

As we moved further east, the day got cloudier and cloudier.

At Koh Phangan, we found our hotel tout who got everyone going to the Power Beach resort into a mini-van (and our backpacks loaded into the back of a pick-up) and we headed to the resort.

Quite nice, very funky, they play music all day long, in the evenings, it's typically dance/club style music to keep everyone going.

Erin and I walked around, had a few beers, had supper, then watched Borat on the tv. Erin slept through most of the movie. I could barely keep my eyes open. I went to bed about 10:30, Erin decided she was going to try to stay up a bit longer in the bar/restaurant.