So Many Roads I Know: 2

Saturday, May 30, 2009

And so It begins.

Ulan Bator, Mongolia
May 30, 2009
10:47 am

12 Women
3 Men
3 bottles of Russian vodka
2 rolls of toilet paper
2 large packs of baby wipes

And Im ready to go! We leave tomorrow at 8:15am,so about 22 hours from the time of this post. After that I will lose contact with the outside world until June 19th as I travel through the vastness of the Mongolian landscape. So for those few of you that read this post I wont have anymore posts until then. I am incredibily excited and can not wait to get away from the city.

My group is pretty great. We have people from all across the world on this trip but as I have mentioned before most of them are women. I dont mind. I guess that women have a more adventurous spirit then men do. We are going to have to dig holes for toilets and not shower until we get back but I am all ready for that. A little dirt never hurt anyone.

I have checked out Suhbaatar Square about a block away from my hostel. It was built during the Russian era and includes a huge open area and a gigantic sculpture of a seated Chinngis Khan at the center of the squares large building. A little later I will most likely head to the National History Museum and after that take it easy and enjoy some of the comforts of the city like tv and maybe a nice meal at a bar.

Ulan Bator is an ok city. You can most definitly see the Soviet influence on the architecture. As well, I have been enjoying the mongolian people. They are very friendly but you can tell that they have a tough composure. Our tour guide was telling us that a famous saying about the Mongol people is that they have the spirit of the Dali Lama and the toughness of Chinngis Khan. From what I have seen this holds true.

I will be able to check email until tomorrow morning but until then thats it. I will talk to everyone soon and see you in the states before you know it.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Beach Bum

Koh Phangan, Thailand
May 5, 2009
6:08 pm

Ok so I have little bit of time to talk about my days here in Koh Phangan but I can't upload pictures so I will get to that whenever I can.

I should start with the elephant trip. I am going to put it out right now.....I pussed out. As soon as I got on the elephant I realized that I hated being on it. It didn't feel right. The elephant looked in pain and I felt like I was about to fall off, so I got off. When I did this the rest of the people started getting on the elephants including the 5 British 20 year old girls. Trust me when I say that I am paying for it and not just from my group. The Thai ladies that were there started to point at me and laugh at me. It was pretty embarrassing. I think that I am ok with it though because of all of the stuff that I have done I have showed my bravery....right?

Now onto the diving. I absolutely loved this. The only bad thing was that we missed the whale shark on all off the dives including todays, so all 4. We did get to see, however, alot of baracuda, bat fish, and so on. It was a lot of big fish. I have to say how absolutely amazing it was. I am really in love with the sea and feel as though I am slowely getting addicted to all of this. I can't wait to get home and book some weekend trips to the Carribean and see more and more. I am also going to get my liceneces updated.

Out of all of the places that I have been to thus far I will definitly come back to these islands and dive again. Ko Phangan is part of a group of islands with Koh Tao and Koh Samui.

We are having a blast here and I am loving my group. Kate says that I should say something about her in my blog because her really nice mom reads this from time to time to check if she is alive. So, Kate's Mom, if you are reading this here is my statement about Kate.....

She farts a lot.

Make sure that you mention this to here if you talk to her again.

Have I talked about our Monkey. He is our drinking monkey. we names him Yeesus. Yeesus because we wanted to name him Jesus but the Sweeds can't pernounce there J's. We have been taking photos with him all around teh place and drinking with him. I am proud to say that we is slowely getting a nice wardrobe put together. We have about a thousand pics with him so far so be sure to see them when I get a chance.

So in short I will get you some pictures soon but for now it is bar time and we are going to have a beer....or two :-).