LIVEALITTLE

Boy, it's been such a while since I've been to a third world country (Australia doesn't count in the grand scheme of things...). It was the biggest travel group I've ever been in. To say the least, I was fearful at first since I know I can be quite pigheaded at times. Thanks guys and gals for making this trip such a memorable and exhilarating one. I would not have wanted my Thailand experience to have been any other way. Our itinerary:
25/6 Sydney -> Bangkok (Khao San Road)
26/6 Bangkok (Wat Phra Kaew, Grand Palace, Wat Pho, Siam Paragon, Patpong Night Mkt, Ping Pong Show)
27/6 Bangkok -> Lopburi
28/6 Lopburi -> Phitsanulok -> Sukhothai -> Phitsanulok
29/6 ->Chiang Mai (Lampang Elephant Camp, hitchhiking, Bubbles club)
30/6 Chiang Mai (hike to Lahu village)
1/7 Chiang Mai (elephant ride along Chong River, bamboo raft & whitewater down Chong River, Chiang Mai Night Mkt)
2/7 Chiang Mai (Doi Suthep Monastery) -> Chiang Rai
3/7 Chiang Rai volunteering with www.wtinad.org (Akha village)
4/7 wtinad (elephant camp, Lahu village #1)
5/7 wtinad (Lahu village clinic, restocking back at Chiang Rai)
6/7 wtinad (Lahu village #2, wtinad school visit)
7/7 wtinad (Lahu village #2 clinic, end of wtinad stint)
8/7 PDA tour - Chiang Rai -> Chiang Khong -> Chiang Saen -> Golden Triangle -> Mekong River Cruise -> Laos -> Chiang Rai
9/7 Chiang Rai > Bangkok -> Phuket (Phuket Town & Karon Beach (Dino Bar) -- Happy Birthday Brian!
10/7 Phuket (Aonang Kayak Tour - Hong Island, James Bond Island, Fantasea)
11/7 Phuket (Ao Nai Han Beach) -> Surat Thani
12/7 -> Kho Samui (Chewang Beach, Lamai Beach & Thai massage, speed boating, Star Bar Lady Boy Show)
13/7 Kho Samui (scuba/snorkeling, Christy's Lady Boy Show)
14/7 Kho Samui -> Surat Thani
15/7 -> Bangkok (Khao San Rd) -> Daemong Floating Mkt -> Kanchanabari (Bridge over River Kwai)
16/7 Kanchanaburi (Erawan Falls, Death Railway, Tasty Cooking Class, Floating Raft Room)
17/7 Kanchanaburi -> Bangkok (MBK Shopping Center 12hrs!) -> airport
18/7 -> Sydney
(NB: itinerary format stolen from Ed)

The pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/livealittle/sets/72157601106730339/

Yes, I am back from 3 weeks in Thailand. Sorry about the MIA, but I have been working hard since landing 3 days ago to get all my 600 pictures sorted and integrated with those of my 4 friends who came with me too.
Sadly, a bout of the flu has hit me (hopefully not the bird one!). We are thinking I contracted it either from the lady who sat next to me hacking away on my 8 hr flight from Bangkok to Sydney or my overindulgence of Shapes crackers (3 boxes) upon landing because Coles had a $.99 sale.
Being the good nurse, Lydia swang by my Tower 1 hovel at uni with a thermometer and some healthy goodies just now. The thermometer read 39.5C (103.1F). So I was promptly rushed home... Funny I should get the flu in mild Sydney, but never in frigid NYC. And this was the first year I took the flu vaccine as uni required it before we went out on clinical!
The pictures are pending but will deffo be up before August 1st coz that's when our internet usage limit is reset.
In the meantime, anyone else start using www.blackle.com yet?