Why not - we'll splurge for the sixty cent pad thai!

5:30 PM - After boarding our first bus in Thailand at the border crossing at 8:00 AM this morning, Philip finally decided that he'd had enough of the plastic coated seats and loud Thai music videos blaring through the sound system. "We're getting off" is pretty much all he said before grabbing our Lonely Planet and deciding that we'd traveled far enough for one day and this (wherever "this" was) was our new destination.

6:30 PM - Luckily, "this" turned out to be Krabi, a small town on the southwestern coast of Thailand with a small town atmosphere, huge book swap shops, handicraft stores, ATMs, plenty of venues to watch tonight's world cup match between Argentina and Serbia, and a sprawling night market lining the river bank. Let's just say that we hit the jackpot with this place, and ate tonight like royalty...well, if royalty can sit on a plastic stool and turn a blind eye to the rats that occasionally scamper across the patio. After perusing and taking hefty samples from several of the food carts, Philip and I settled on the sixty cent pad thai (it was ten cents more than the stall next door, but ours had prawns and was cooked right there before our eyes and watering mouths). It was nothing short of amazing. After a Thai pancake filled with pineapple and chocolate sauce, I admitted defeat and rolled myself away from the food stalls. I can already tell that Thailand and I are going to get along quite well - if they keep up the spectacular food and equally spectacular prices, I'll certainly keep eating and travelling.

10:00 PM - Our transportation crisis has been solved and a ten o'clock a.m. bus will deliver us to Kuraburi tomorrow by midafternoon (that is, if we're actually saying the name right and can visually recognize the town in time to alert the bus driver so that he can slow to a roll and dump us on the side of the highway). Thailand public buses - they're cheap, but trickly - wish us luck!