We just completed a marathon travel session. We left July 24, at 6:30pm and got to Koh Samui the next day around 2pm (bus and ferry). We left for Koh Phangan on the 28th at 5:30pm and got back the next day at 6am (minibus, speedboat, minibus). We started our journey back to Bangkok at noon the same day and arrived the 30th at 10am (minibus, ferry, bus, train). We are officially tired of traveling!
We wish that we could slow down or stop for a bit, but our Thai visas expire on the 2nd, so we are now enlisting the one thing we though we would only need to get to Hong Kong and then again to get home. That is right: an AIRCRAFT. Just the thought of sitting on anything that moves slower than 200 mph gives us chills. I don't care if it is a VIP, super, rapid, express, direct, sleeper, 1st class, air conditioned, magic people mover. I want to just stay somewhere for a while and even that isn't likely to happen soon. As I dread moving to the next place, we are in talks about buying rail and air tickets for coming home twice more and getting around China and Europe. All this has caused us to open our wallets and deal with airport security to get from A to B as fast as possible without dealing with C.
Granted, all our land and sea crossings are cheap by comparison (especially when a hotel isn't needed for sleeper trains/buses). But nothing beats the allure of shooting to your destination at 36,000 feet in hours rather than days. W also have a time crunch as we cut out some stops (anything hiking related) to make room for the ones that we can relax at (read: beaches). So wish us luck and hopefully the roll of the carriage can once again swing us to sleep.
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