Yesterday we caught a plane out of Chiang Mai and flew two hours down here to an airport on the island. I caught a head cold somehow the night before and when the plane started to descend to land my ears filled up with whatever and really started to hurt. They are still plugged up.I am not a beach person at all and my plugged left ear that doesn’t allow me to hear on my left side is really making it hard for me to communicate with anyone especially when it is already hard because of the language barrier. Pretty much def on the left side and I feel helpless because Kevin has to translate any conversation that I have with any Thai people. I am still trying to have a good time though and am enjoying the beach and stuff.
Here is what we did yesterday. As I said, got in by plane to an airport that had absolutely no walls. Just a roof with open sides because when it is warm year round you don’t need walls. It was really nice and tropical looking. We caught a cab to our hotel, checked in and realized that the place was kind of a shit hole especially being that it cost the exact same price that we paid at the Mini Cost in Chiang Mai, which was a really nice place. It doesn’t have hot water and is a little dirty. It’s not all that bad though for 12 dollars each a night and it has a really nice porch to sit on and watch it rain and look at weird birds. Oh yeah, it is raining and everything is soaking wet but still hot and even more humid. With the rain added to the humidity you are constantly wet.
I forgot to mention that we met some girls from Tahoe as we got off the plane at the Koh Samui airport. Mine was a super hot blond, about a 9.5 out of 10 on the scale and Kevin's was a fatty about 300 pounds on the scale.
After we checked into our room we walked down the white sand beaches, ate some lunch at one of the nicer resort style hotels here and then strolled down the main street of town. Kevin and I figure that Koh Samui is like Hawaii or Cabo for Europeans. This place is full of European tourists and all of the Thais that live or work on the island are pretty much here solely to make money off of tourism. A fat European dude in a banana hammock actually just walked by on the beach moments ago. When you walk downtown you are harangued by people trying to sell you things, especially suits.Anyways, we pretty much just sat around drinking a few beers at the bar/restaurant of our hotel for the remainder of the night last night. Brewskis is all there really is to do here as far as I can tell and that is all good with me.
Today we are going to rent a car and drive around the island.
I forgot to mention that last night as we were walking down the beach we found a large green praying mantis on the sand. It was pretty cool. It was also at this point that we realized that Chaweng is operating at about three percent of its true carrying capacity. It’s strange because all along the beach for miles there are about 500 restaurants and relatively big hotels and clubs. They are all open for business but all mostly empty. It is really trippy, a huge empty beach and just us. We are thinking that because this is the rainiest month in the south of Thailand it must be the off-season. Koh Samui is probably insane during peak months.
Another thing that we are noticing is that our alcohol tolerance is getting pretty huge. We are animals. I’m done.
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