We spend most of the year on the road but return every summer to the Pacific Northwest to visit friends and family. Just because we are retired and have the whole summer free, doesn’t mean that our whole family is free as well. Our sons are busy with jobs, girlfriends, and navigating early adulthood, so…
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Gili Air, Indonesia
We had 9 lazy lazy days on the island of Gili Air for our last destination on this trip. Gili Air is about the size of our Stretch Island in Washington state. On the first day we walked the entire 3.4 miles around the perimeter which is the exact same as my kayak trips around…
Langkawi Island, Malaysia
After 4 nights on the island of Langkawi, we still don’t really know what to think of it. After 6 weeks in Thailand we were ready for a change, and Malaysia is certainly a lot different from Thailand. In Koh Lipe Thailand, they were selling pot plants at road side stands, but most of the…
Koh Lipe Thailand
Out last week in Thailand! We are sad to be leaving but also excited to see a new country. We saved the last island for one of the ones we were most looking forward to – Koh Lipe. It is just a little bit bigger than our Stretch Island in Washington State and that means…
Koh Samui, Thailand
Another week, another Thai Island to discover. Koh Samui is a lot bigger than Koh Tao. Samui compares to the size of Vashon Island in Washington State. Samui is another place where tourism is relatively new. The first roads and tourists didn’t come until the 1970’s. We wanted to find a place near the big…
Koh Tao, Thailand
Koh Tao is a island about the physical size of Anderson Island or Shaw Island in Washington state with only a few thousand people living fulltime on it. The only business is tourism, and the island is filled with backpackers and tourists escaping the cold of their countries for some days in the sun. Not…