getting crabby in Krabi

We sadly left Phi Phi yesterday afternoon. I could have stayed there forever, but the reality is that we need to keep moving. We took an afternoon ferry to Krabi and spent the evening there, as we can take a bus to Koh Samui from Krabi (the bus is about 5-6 hours long). We got a cheap room last night with no AC, and we met a cute couple from England who told us that their bed had bed bugs in it so I think I spent most of the night worrying that in fact, I likely couldn't sleep tight because the bed bugs would bite.

We borrowed a motorbike from our hotel and toured around the town. We ended up driving out in "real" Thailand (no English signs), far from tourists (or farang as we are called here...). The scenery was beautful - huge cliffs, palm trees - and it was awesome to get a sense of what Thailand is when you get away from the tourists and sugarcoated beach life. The bike got a flat tire so we toured around slowly trying to make it back in one piece. Jason was an awesome driver and got us back to the hotel, although the tire was completely messed up. The rental place owner was really mad though, and wouldn't give me back my passport until we got the bike back from the shop. Her argument was that we shouldn't have driven the bike back in that condition, especially not with two people on it...our argument was that we didn't want to leave the bike, or call a taxi (we had no idea how to get anywhere...we didn't have the telephone number for our hotel). In the end we paid less than $20 for a new tire and I got my passport back so everything is ok!

So, i hope this message finds you well. We will post another message when we are settled in Samui. Hopefully I will get a little bit of sleep then...

M :)