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W District – Out door food court / beer garden. Many quality food choices en-circle the perimeter.
October 2023 to February 2024
Back to Thailand for the Winter 2023-2024
This year we’re starting in Bangkok. We’ve booked an Airbnb 23rd floor condo for 4 weeks at The Room Sukhumvit 69. It’s literally a stones throw from Phra Khaong BTS Skytrain station. 🚝
Next, we’re going north to Chiang Mai and into another Airbnb condo, The LIV@NIMMAN also for 4 weeks. Chiang Mai is our favourite city in Thailand.
Our visas will expire Just before Christmas, so we’re doing a 4 day road trip into northern Thailand, crossing into Laos as pedestrians (we just get stamped out of Thailand, take a bus across the “Friendship Bridge”, pay US$45 for a Laos visa, turn around and get stamped out of Laos and take the bus back across the Mekong) in order to activate the 2nd term of our Thai visa.
We’ll go back to Chiang Mai and spend 4 days over Christmas before flying down to Krabi and home to Siboya. 🌴😎
Finally, sometime towards the end of January, we’re planning to bounce along the east coast, north and south of Hua Hin. Stop and Go adlib. 🕉
Our flight back to Victoria is February 18th. 🥶
October 2022 to February 2023
The Time Has Finally Come
Last time we were in South East Asia was February 2016, that’s 6 years and 9 months. I hope we can remember how to speak some Thai.
We fly out of Victoria at 10:00am on Thursday, October 27, transit Vancouver and board Air Canada to Tokyo. After a 3hr 25min layover we board ANA to Bangkok.
We have timed the escape seeming quite well… after a very dry, warm and sunny fall… the forecast is for one of those atmospheric rivers to come roaring in as we leave.
Stay tuned…
February 2016 to October 2022
Waiting for a safe world.
Well not quite… up until April 2020 we were taking care of Joann’s dad, Joe. It’s been a wild ride giving him a fabulous last 5 years. He passed on April 2nd, 2020 at 98 years. Went quickly and never really suffered the full effect of the Covid lockdown.
We’ve been in a holding pattern waiting for the Vaccine. Now we are both double Vaxed and double Boostered so we finally have plans to head back to SE Asia the end of October 2022. Not to say living in good ol’ Victoria has in any way, been a hardship, oh contraire.
May to June – 2015
Morocco for a month
As usual, we are self catering this tour… TripAdvisor – Booking.com – AirBnB – Lonely Planet… are our research and booking resources.
October 2014 – Febrary 2015
Thailand… Chiang Mai and Siboya
November 2013 – March 2014
Thailand – Cambodia – Bali – Sulawesi – Borneo
November 2012 – March 2013
Thailand and Borneo
Chiang Mai > Northenr Thailand > Balikpapan > Derawan Island > Sabah > Brunei > Sarawak
November 2011 – March 2012
Thailand – Laos – Myanmar
Bangkok > Chiang Mai > Siboya > Vientiane > Luang Prabang > Yangon > Mandalay > Bagan > Inle Lake > Home
May-June 2011
Paris – Morocco – Loire Valley
November 2010 – April 2011
Thailand – Cambodia – Laos
Bangkok > Koh Chang (west) > Siboya > Vientiane > Vang Vieng > Phonsavan > Luang Prabang
November 2009 – April 2010
Thailand – Laos – Bali
Chiang Mai > Sukothai > Vientiane > Siboya Bungalows > Bali
November to December 2008
Cambodia – Vietnam – Siboya
Siem Reap > Phnom Penh > Saigon > Nha Trang > Saigon > Siboya Bungalows.
November 2007 – January 2008
Winter at Siboya Bungalows
September to October 2007
South Africa Tour
November-2006 to March 2007
Cambodia…Thailand…Bali…Borneo
So here we go for the winter…
In November we headed off to Asia again. Victoria > Bangkok > Siem Reap > Phnom Penh > Sihanoukvile > Phanom Penh > Bangkok > Trang > Krabi > Phuket > Kuala Lumpur > Bali > Nusa Lembongan > Ubud > Kuching > Singapore > Victoria… doing nothing on Siboya is still the best.
September – 2006
Road Trip… Georgia to Victoria
January to February – 2005
R&R at Siboya Bungalows
April to June 2004
Bali and Kuching, Borneo
December 1999 to April 2000
Siboya Bungalows… Southern India… Back to Siboya
* A 5 week tour of Southern India.
* Back to Siboya Bungalows to decompress.
January to March 1999
Bangkok and Koh Siboya
* Relaxing at Siboya Bungalows.
* The the SHIT hits the fan in Phuket.
January to March 1998
Koh Siboya
* Started in Penang.
* Relaxing at Siboya Bungalows.
January to March 1997
Siboya and Bali
* Haven’t been back to Bali for years.
January to March 1996
Siboya and Bunaken, Sulawesi
* New adventure snorkeling in Sulawesi.
January to March 1995
Leasing a Beach Plot in Thailand
It has six, 40 foot coconut palms, a mango tree, a Kaffir lime tree and a Tamarind tree.
February to April 1994
Vietnam… Hanoi to Saigon
* Bangkok to Kanchanaburi for a weekend.
* Then Vietnam for a month.
February to March 1993
Back to Pine Bungakows, Krabi.
January to April 1992
Back to Krabi and Penang
January to March 1990
Two Months in Thailand
January to April 1988
Thailand Revisited
September 1984 to January 1985
Yelapa, Mexico
December 1979 to June 1981
Pacific Rim Tour
So here goes… we sold our house, quit our jobs and bought one-way tickets to Bangkok…