Leavin' On A Sleeper Train

Please, enjoy a courtesy photo of Jonathan playing with the cute kid in the village.

The last two days have been summarily uneventful; we've really been waiting around for some transport to open up so we can bail on Chiang Mai. Not that we haven't loved it here; the trek was amazing, the cooking class was fantastic, and the staff at Gap's House have been amusing and friendly the entire time we've been here. I'll miss Pim (the lady who can organise anything), and the cooking class teacher Jo's haunting, murderous "I'm gonna getcha!" laugh. Aaaaaaaaaahh!

...Drew and Jono know what I'm talking about. sheesh.

Drew's had a touch of the Bali Belly, so we've pumped him full o' drugs and he should be right today. I really want to get my greedy capitalist pigdog hands on some portable IPod speakers before we catch the last horse outta this one horse town. Its just not the same chilling out with the three of us and some beer without some communal moosik to groove to.

Our train leaves at 430pm, and arrives in Lop Buri at the astoundalicious time of 330am. We're looking forward to watching the sun rise over the capital of the monkey nation before we pass out and are eaten by rabid primates.

Chances are we won't get some internets in monkeytown or Ayutthaya (the ruins of the old capital), so the next post will come from Kanchanaburi in a few days time. For those of you playing at home, that's the location of the famous tiger temple where we three kings will get to play with some tigers and their monk handlers.
We're looking forward to playing with the tigers more than the monks though.
There's also something called "The River Kwai", "Hellfire Pass" and "Erawan Falls" in the area too, though being the uncultured savage that I am, I'm not sure what they are.
Jokes! It'll be an interesting cultural experience. Jono is particularly keen on it, history buff that he is.

Hope you're all enjoying gearing up for Christmas. Eat some stone fruits and seafood for us; we're gorging out on 5baht bunches of bananas for all of you, never fear!