 | happy birthday bcc!
2002-08-17, Bangkok, Thailand. By: ALinBKK | | Today was Bangkok Christian College’s 150th Anniversary party. Ricky had to be there really early to be in the parade…can’t tell you too much about it, however, I didn’t arrive until afterwards…and t... |
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 | weekend trip round-up
2002-08-11, Ko Nang Yuan, Thailand. By: ALinBKK | | DAY THREE: …I woke up early and when out and sat on the beach. Forgot my sunglasses, so I had to go in early…the reflection off that sand is really intense…blinding really. Ricky and I hiked up to ... |
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 | weekend trip: day two
2002-08-10, Ko Nang Yuan, Thailand. By: ALinBKK | | DAY TWO: …Ricky and I got up early. Our departure time was set the previous night for 8:30 that morning, so we woke up and had coffee and watched the early-morning calm of the beach. There were pe... |
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 | Weekend Trip: Day One
2002-08-09, Hua Hin, Thailand. By: ALinBKK | | I don’t know where to begin ….Ricky and I just returned from the most incredible weekend trip. …DAY ONE: …I was a little apprehensive the day we were leaving—spe... |
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 | excuse me, but... I was next!
2002-08-09, country-wide, Thailand. By: ALinBKK | | Hello all.
Cultural observation: Thai people don't wait in line. Its like we in the west have been programed to stand in line and, if you cut, well...don't ever cut in line. Wait until its your... |
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| Getting ready...thanks, Peg!
2002-08-09, Bangkok, Thailand. By: ALinBKK | | Hello. Ricky and I leave for Koh Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand which, because of its distance from any river tributary, is supposed to have the best snorkeling and scuba diving in the Gulf. ... |
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| you can thank the missionaries for this one
2002-08-09, Bangkok, Thailand. By: ALinBKK | | In Thailand, people eat with a fork(left hand) and spoon(right hand) and leave the knives to us Americans to cut our steaks with. Here is the story of why they do that (I'm going to keep the dates va... |
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| old email newsletter
2002-07-05, Bangkok, Thailand. By: ALinBKK | | And on our fifth day, God wanted it to rain.
And it was so…six inches in one afternoon.
Hi all.
It’s Friday afternoon here. Hot and humid and it has been raining off an on (mostly on) sinc... |
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 | Snif..
2002-07-02, Bangkok, Thailand. By: etienne | | (Etienne) Well, as I sit here in the net cafe in our hotel, Shalini is getting a facial, pedicure and manicure nearby. I just got my first real thai massage(no oil) and man was it painful but it sure ... |
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| Holy polution Batman!
2002-07-01, Bangkok, Thailand. By: etienne | | (Etienne) First of all let me just say thanks for all the good wishes, I love my girl and cant wait to make her mine FOREVER MUAHAHAH!!! This trip is wrapping up pretty nicely, but we still have 36 ho... |
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| Big News!
2002-06-30, Ko Samui, Thailand. By: etienne | | (Shalini)Yes!!! We got to sleep in this morning. We were just thrashed from the past two days of tours not that the touring was over cause today we hired a private driver and he took us all around th... |
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| Angthong National Marine park
2002-06-29, Ko Samui, Thailand. By: etienne | | (Etienne) Shalini totally lied about last night BTW, she dragged ME in there! So of course once we were inside I wanted to get my money's worth! This morning was ultra painful, again up at 7am for pic... |
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| Koh Tao trip!
2002-06-28, Ko Samui, Thailand. By: etienne | | (Shalini) After a couple of days of R&R we got back to waking up at 6:30am (which was very difficult) I got used to sleeping in till 10am for 2 whole days. We started off by getting pickuped bright an... |
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| Weeeee!
2002-06-26, Ko Samui, Thailand. By: etienne | | Koh Samui means another stretch of doing not much for many hours on end, so today we relaxed for the most fo the day. We had a classic british dinner at a place called Churchill's and watched another ... |
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| Ohhh it hurts!
2002-06-25, Ko Samui, Thailand. By: etienne | | (Etienne) Well after getting home so late and making the mistake of booking on the 11:30am boat out of here, lets just say were quite tired! We got a quick snack at this neat little restaurant beside ... |
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| Biggest party on earth
2002-06-24, Ko Phangan, Thailand. By: etienne | | Well it turns out the call to stay in Ton Sala was a good one, as boring as it was in the evening, it really opens up in the day with a million shops which of course Shalini had to explore in great de... |
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| Finally here
2002-06-23, Ko Phangan, Thailand. By: etienne | | I write this from Ton Sala, the largest city on this island but really the most boring to arrive at night... We left Krabi on a bus this morning and took 3.5 hours to get to Surat Thani, once there we... |
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| Travel blues
2002-06-22, Krabi, Thailand. By: etienne | | Today we had to leave Phi Phi, which had to be the nicest little slice of paradise ever seen... We got on the big baot with 900000 other sardines and headed off to Krabi. Krabi is not much to speak of... |
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| Reeeeeeelax
2002-06-21, Ko Phi Phi, Thailand. By: etienne | | (Etienne) Well the reason Ive been feeling under the weather for a day or two on this trip must be that I had a cold brewing... Since I had some symptoms in Bali and once again here in Phi Phi I can o... |
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| Maya Bay
2002-06-18, Ko Phi Phi, Thailand. By: etienne | | (Shalini) Today we went on a half day excursion to Maya Bay where the movie the Beach was filmed. We took a long tail boat over to the island which took about half an hour. It was a rocky ride and I h... |
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| Woohoo Koh Phi Phi!
2002-06-17, Ko Phi Phi, Thailand. By: etienne | | (Shalini)Our day started off in Phuket where we went to the beach to say our final good byes. We then headed to our minibus which took us to the other side of Phuket where we would catch our boat to P... |
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| James Bond Island
2002-06-16, Phuket, Thailand. By: etienne | | (Etienne)Woke up to find a partly cloudy day which was a blessing in disguise, as we were to do some touring around today and things can get HOT around here! After a quick breakfast we wandered in to ... |
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