We are in Narita Airport, Tokyo, boarding for the 13 hour flight to Chicago, then home to Minnesota. We spent most of the last week on Tioman, an island off the east coast of Malaysia. A BLAST! we met an Italian woman on the ferry crossing, and she shared our room for two nights as she had nowhere to stay. Then, our Singapore buddies Tom and Larry surprised us by showing up on the island when we thought, nah, no way will they come. John and I were sitting at a little restaurant reading, I looked up, and voila!!! There stood the traveling minstrels themselves. So, not only did we enjoy the island paradise that the east coast of Tioman remains (it's where the movie South Pacific was filmed!), we snorkeled, hiked, ate, and swam with a totally fun group of folks!
And finally, Bangkok for a day, which is the minimum amount of time it takes to acclimate to any new space, so we didn't really. However, we did manage to make it to Wat Pho where we enjoyed a Thai massage, the Grand Palace, where we did NOt so much enjoy the heat and grumpy guards, a ride along the river, which is the best way to see that part of Bangkok, dinner in Chinatown, and finally a ride on the mass transit, which was a fraction of the cost of the taxi we took to get that whole thing rolling in the morning. Here we are on the train, on the way back to the hotel - which, by the way, was recommended to us by my friend Janet's son, George, who lived there and stiudied Muay Thai for some time. It is an amazing training facility should you or anyone you know care to study martial arts in that part of the world!
Boarding call - home we go!
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