Photo of Ko Mak

Thailand - Ko Mak

This past week I traveled south to Trat province, spending a few nights on Ko Mak (island). I spent my time between the beach and the Internet (finishing arrangements for my new job in Korea).

I spent more on accommodation than usual. As it’s high season now, places are booked and prices are double what they are other times of the year. And I needed a place with Internet access. But still $20 a night for a bungalow on the beach is better than you’d ever get back home, right?

I’m at the airport in Vietnam (10-hour layover), about to board my flight to Seoul, South Korea. Tomorrow morning I'll be seeing my new office and apartment, and meeting my new employer and colleagues. Exciting!

Back in Sangklaburi, Thailand

I'm in Thailand. I took the 7 hour bus ride from Bangkok to Sangklaburi. And I'm back at the orphanage in which I volunteered as an English teacher this June. This is a photo I snapped from the bus window--houseboats on the lake. Sangklaburi is in the mountains, near the Myanmar (Burma) border. There are so many refugees here. Conditions in Burma are terrible. People risk a lot escaping to Thailand.