Trip to Thailand

After some planning, my friend, Erdem, and I have decided to take a trip to Thailand. We were going to go to Australia, but the tickets were much more expensive for this time of the year. We're going in the second half of December, which is when everyone in Tokyo is on vacation. This causes airline ticket prices to jump up dramatically. That part of the plan didn't work out too well, because what was supposed to be a $600 ticket to Thailand ended up being a $1200 ticket to Thailand. I think I just booked too late. Oh well, I'm really excited about the trip, anyway.

We're going to be biking from Bangkok to Phuket. It's about 500 miles. We're going to get to Phuket on the 20th and leave from Phket on the 27th. Hopefully, we won't have so much biking that we can't take some time explore. There are organized bike trips that do that route in about ten days with about eight days of biking. I think we should be fine. The hardest part is going to be getting my bike box from Bangkok to Phuket. I still have that part to figure out. I'll probably just ship it to a hotel and stay there for the last night. We have been planning to sleep in bivi sacks along the way, but it only costs about $15 / night to stay at an inn, so we'll see.

I'm really excited about the food. It's the perfect place to be for a bike trip. We're going to need extra calories with all of the biking, so we're going to have to eat enormous amounts of delicious Thai food. I just wish I didn't have to wait for two months.

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I almost hope something goes wrong so I don't have to leave.