http://theworldisago.com Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:01:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi everyone... As you can see the site is a little messed up right now. I upgraded the backend on it and it messed everything up. When I get some time I'll fix it. Brian http://theworldisago.com/archives/181  (1/2-1/15) So many things have happened it's hard to know where to start. We are two weeks into our volunteering and are half way done. Time has gone by fast and we can't believe that we only have two weeks left. I will run through our typical week so you can ... http://theworldisago.com/archives/173 (12/30-1/2/08) We flew out Dec. 30th to Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, to spend New Year’s Eve before we started our volunteer work. We may have mentioned how crazy traffic was in Bangkok…but that was nothing compared to traffic here. I have never seen so many motorbikes in my life. ... http://theworldisago.com/archives/172 (12/15-12/30) We enticed another one to cross the seas and join us. My sister, Elizabeth, elected to spend a portion of her winter break with us in Thailand. It originally was going to be Australia, but since we had to cut out the South Pacific she thought Thailand would still ... http://theworldisago.com/archives/171 (A late update taken from the journal) We have been on the island of Ko Chang for seven days now. We arrived on a Saturday and joined the masses of local Thais on their long weekend. We chose to stay in a bungalow on Kai Bae beach on the west coast ... http://theworldisago.com/archives/170 That was the going question for our next part of the trip as we ventured into Northern Thailand. We decided to take a trek and chose a 3 day 2 night, non-touristy trek around Pai. Pai is about 2 hours north of Chiang Mai. The trek was unforgettable for us. ... http://theworldisago.com/archives/169 Coming soon... http://theworldisago.com/archives/168 Culture shock is right! Things are definitely different. We arrived shortly after midnight and had arranged to have a driver from our hotel meet us at the airport and escort us to the hotel. The drive to the hotel was the first sign that things were going to be a ... http://theworldisago.com/archives/167 California here we come! I just love to say it. We arrived in San Francisco Wednesday afternoon and were greeted at the airport by Lindsay and Luke. We decided to drive straight into the city and get something to eat. A sour-dough bread bowl of clam chowder on the wharf ... http://theworldisago.com/archives/166 After much discussion we decided that we both would come home in October for the wedding instead of just Brian. To help offset the plane tickets we made the trip home for about a month instead of a week and flew home around the same time as everyone else the ... http://theworldisago.com/archives/165