thailand bound.

i'm currently in the seoul airport, just said goodbye to my little apartment, my friends, just watched ali get on his flight back to england, and am getting ready to say goodbye to korea. i take off for thailand in about an hour and a half, and will be meeting jen at the bangkok airport (oh please oh please God let us find each other...), and our southeast asia journey begins! it's been a bit of a rough week trying to pack, sort out terrible work situations and pay checks, saying goodbye to everyone and everything i love here (which ofcourse included a few late nights in hongdae and an up-till-4-am nuribong karaoke session), but i'm glad it's over and now i'm ready to move on to the next thing. like a month long vacation! :) i can't believe in just 7 hours i will see jen! family! someone completely unconnected to korea and completely connected to every other part of my life. it will be a nice transition into going home i think.

i'll try to keep the blog updated as much as possible as we make our way through thailand and laos. the plan for the first section of our travles is a day in bangkok, a night train up to chang mai (northern thailand), a couple day hill trek through the back country of thailand, and a 2 day slow boat trip into laos, where we will hopefully not get washed away by the laos floods (boo rainy season!), and will be spending a couple days doing the classic vang vienne river tubing. i'll let you know how it all goes!!!