5/9 - Leaving Tomorrow

Ken and I leave for Thailand tomorrow for 3 weeks. We're flying from Tucson to LA on Southwest. After a three hour layover in LA, we fly to Taipei on China Airlines. Then we switch planes and fly from Taipei to Bangkok. We arrive in Bangkok at 1:00am on Thursday the 12th.

We don't plan to spend long in Bangkok. On Thursday, we plan to look for a flight to Phuket - a short flight. We'll spend a day in Phuket and then take a boat to Phi Phi Island.

If you're on Central Time, Thailand is twelve hours ahead. So, when it's 1pm in Chicago, it's 1am in Thailand - the next day.

Last night we had a kick-butt Bon Voyage party at Libby's house. Stacie, Leah, Cortnie and Doug were there. Thanks guys for a great send-off. The food and company were awesome. Libby and Stacie - the backpacks rock! Good luck to Doug in your upcoming race.

Today, we're running around tying up loose ends - packing, photocopying passports, buying snacks and getting some reading material to keep us entertained for the long flights.

We'll update again from Thailand.

- Steve

PS - We get back on June 2nd.