Tomorrow we begin the journey that many have called brave, a few irresponsible and the rest crazy.
It’s true; we’ve had to be brave. We’re leaving our friends, our families, our lives. And they’re right. It is slightly irresponsible. The money we’re using to fund this trip could have been a pretty healthy deposit on a house. And yes, it is a bit crazy. We’ve quit our jobs and given up our only source of income in the mists of one of the harshest economic climates we’ve ever encountered.
But we considered all these things. We thought about them long and hard. And we decided to do it anyway.
So tomorrow we board a plane to Singapore, where another will take us to Phuket. There we’ll find a bus that'll drop us off in a little place on the south west coast of Thailand called Khao Lak.
Here we’ll spend a month or so ridding ourselves of the baggage of the western world, and volunteering in some independent charity organisations still battling the destruction of the 2004 Tsunami.
When we get sick of the monotony of the tidal change, we’ll head north to Chiang Mai, then to Laos, onto Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, The Philippines, New Zealand, Australia and finally home, to South Africa.
We hope that a few of you will come visit us somewhere along the way. If not, we’d love you to follow our epic journey on this blog.
Stay tuned.
M&K
It’s true; we’ve had to be brave. We’re leaving our friends, our families, our lives. And they’re right. It is slightly irresponsible. The money we’re using to fund this trip could have been a pretty healthy deposit on a house. And yes, it is a bit crazy. We’ve quit our jobs and given up our only source of income in the mists of one of the harshest economic climates we’ve ever encountered.
But we considered all these things. We thought about them long and hard. And we decided to do it anyway.
So tomorrow we board a plane to Singapore, where another will take us to Phuket. There we’ll find a bus that'll drop us off in a little place on the south west coast of Thailand called Khao Lak.
Here we’ll spend a month or so ridding ourselves of the baggage of the western world, and volunteering in some independent charity organisations still battling the destruction of the 2004 Tsunami.
When we get sick of the monotony of the tidal change, we’ll head north to Chiang Mai, then to Laos, onto Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, The Philippines, New Zealand, Australia and finally home, to South Africa.
We hope that a few of you will come visit us somewhere along the way. If not, we’d love you to follow our epic journey on this blog.
Stay tuned.
M&K
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