It’s been exactly 2 months since my last post, and for that, I apologize. For whatever reason, after Simon and I evacuated Russia/Mongolia and got back to the joys of Southeast Asia…I just stopped writing.

It’s my last day in SE Asia and I’m struggling with summing up my trip, but I will try. Back home in both Chicago and Denver I felt like life was happening to me - I didn’t feel alive. Out here I have felt like I’ve lived two entire lifetimes.

I’ve been gone for a month as of today, but I feel like I have lived a lifetime out here - in a good way.

Headed out this morning to dive Hin Daeng and Hin Muang. It is supposed to be some of the best diving in the world and the best in Thailand.

My time in Laos is ending tomorrow and it’s been the best time on my trip so far because of our great crew. There are 8 of us from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, and France.

Blogging decreases when happy and busy but increases when you stay up too late, it’s 102 outside, and all you want to do is lay in the air-con.

I got interviewed at a Muay Thai fight in Ayutthaya

I have finally gotten out of the miserable city of Bangkok and arrived in Ayutthaya

I finally wandered out of the hostel for food…

Sorry Mom…

I did exactly what I wasn’t supposed to do and ended up in ground zero of the Bangkok protests. Flipped and burned cars. Tent cities. Megaphones. Razor wire. Walls made of burned tire. Popcorn army. Life size pictures of government officials with their eyes gouged. Zero white people

My cute little cabin bed in my first hostel in Bangkok!