Thank You

Yep it's day 79 out of 79 and we fly home in about four hours and since we're being all bored and retrospective, here is my large thank you post. There's been a lot of people who have helped us out over the past three months and I'll apologise now for anyone that I don't mention but to kick things off I'd like to thank four people in particular:

First and foremost I would like to say a hugggeee thank you to Adam for putting up with my own particular brand of cynicism, insanity, moodiness and general bullshit for just shy of three whole months, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. It really has been an unbelievable journey and it's been a lot of fun going through the whole thing and experiencing it in what is pretty much a defacto gay marriage. Thanks champ and I cannot wait to come home and not have to deal with your snoring anymore.

Next I need to say a massive, massive, massive thank you to our main traveling companions over the trip: Jono, Jess and Alli. I can honestly say that the journey would never ever have been as enjoyable, crazy and fun without having you all there to share it with. If this trip has shown me one thing it's that the journey is only a little bit of the pleasure of travelling, it's the people that you meet and experience it with that make it truly enjoyable and memorable and I don't think I'll ever be able to properly explain to any of you how much I appreciated and enjoyed your company. Awwwww. So thank you all for both putting up with us and coming along for the ride.

I'd like to make a shout out to my family (even you Ben) who kept me entertained with random news from home and all of our friends: Danny and Chris for keeping it real, the Happy Care House for the party stories, Fransoir for putting up with me when I was sick and needed to vent, and everyone else who took the time to email us, read the blog, or chat to us online. We've missed you.

And finally, in semi chronological order, the big list. Thank you to:

Thai Airlines Stewardess for trying to teach us how to say thankyou, Taxi Tout for the rip job airport ride into Bangkok, the Thai king for being such a good bloke and having his country through him such a massive goddamn party, the Siam Oriental for being such a dump, $3 tallies, 3L towers of beer, Sangsom Whiskey, the Khao San palace (sorry about the room), Travel Agent dude, Gap's house, Pim, Insane Joe, Ute Lady, Sunni for the 3 day trek, the first village for showing us some lateral thinking puzzles, the second village for having the most amazingly fun and cute children on the planet, the Cow for dieing and providing us with a once in a year feast, Rice Wine, Sleeper trains for being nothing like I thought they would be, Pui for providing one of the most random and insane nights of the trip, for being the only person on this trip that I seriously got pissed at, and for not actually being a psycho serial killer and eating us. Thai uni students for being so hot, KAHN at Kanchanburi for threatening to kill herself if we didn't stay, Bill at the Death Railway, a big fuck you to the weather in the Gulf of Thailand that caused the sickest 90 minutes of my life, Ko Tao for being so goddamn perfect, Ko Pha Gnan for being so insane, Hat Yai Street Food, Malaysia, the Malay taxi dude that took us 35 km for 3 dollars, the Malay alpahbet for being Latin based, that....thing at Jerantut for being hilarious and harassing Adam, the Red Dragon for showing True Lies, Kuala Lumpur for being such a nice city, Maccas for the Prosperity Burger, Wani for giving me the burger and for running into us randomly @ Borders, the Starbucks lady who proved Muslim women could be hot simply by wearing eyeliner, Singapore for providing me a camera and expensive beer, the Jazz club for giving us the opportunity to put a bit more pirate into their advertisement, Singapore Air for proving you can make your staff wear full length dresses and still be smoking hot, the Vietnamse Airport taxi driver who tried to charge us 10 times the going rate for a cab, Saigon traffic, the various war museums for showing a different point of view of the Vietnam war

(deep breath)

The Eden bar for providing not only Phlough but also Alli and Jess (three of the hottest women on the planet), the Cu Chi tunnels for showing just how fucked America was in the War, Nha Trang for the Cabana bar and one of the most crazy nights in a pub of my life, Chung for the coffee and the two day tour of Viet suburbia, the old man on the overnight bus for being such a grumpy arsehole and then sitting down and shutting up for the whole trip, Hoi An for giving us a Vietnamese cooking course and some tailored clothes, BIA HOI for being so freaking cheap, Matt and Al for being awesome blokes, Hue for the CITADADEL and the cone hats, the overnight train for Adam on Valium and the experience of sleeping in a coffin, Hanoi Traffic, Baguettes, Pho (best noodle dish on the planet), water puppets, Halong Bay for being beautiful, every single person who we met on Australia Day (Matt deserves another mention for being hilarious), Noah, Maxx and Timbles for hanging with us, MOTORBIKE TAXIS wooooooooo, the Funky Monkey for the shit beats and good times, Vietnam Air for ripping us off, Laos for being so....Laos (??), Vang Vieng for being the party capital of the universe, the Hippies, Dale, tubing for the cold, the swings, the oodles of beer and the nightmare trip back home, the Plain of Jars for being random, the seventeen hour bus ride back to Bangkok and for the excessive speed and drunk drivers, Patpong road, Adams folks for everything, the Dusit for assigning security guards to watch us, Pattaya for being so insanely seedy, the ping pong show for being eye opening, Valentines Day for the big deep and meaningful, Bill for the Show, Catchunksomething markets and the Khao San for being...well the Khao San.

That about does it and of course I've forgotten people and once again, I'm sorry. Time to fly people, I'll see you all soon.

Love Drew