Makin' a List...

Koh Phi Phi Don, Thailand

January 19-20, 2008
N 07°44.128
E 098°46.795

After one day of overcast skies and brief showers, the weather on the island has been perfect—blue skies, sunny and relatively low humidity. We’ve been taking advantage of the sun and hitting the beach every day and, more importantly, we’re doing what we planned to do on the island—relax.

For me the first few days were tough, not only because of the problems in our rooms, but because I had a taste of home. A quick taste, yes, but it did something to me I can’t really describe. I guess my anxiety about coming home really peaked and thoughts churned in my head, or should I say lists of what needs to be done to get our lives back to “normal.” I didn’t want to be thinking about home while I was on this beautiful island and it took a few days for the formations of lists to go away.

Now instead of making lists of things we need to take-care-of when we get home, we’re making Top 5 Lists of moments during our trip. For example, Top 5 Worst Travel Days, or T5 Most Memorable Days, or T5 Places for Natural Beauty, T5 People We Met that Enriched Our Journey, etc.

A full post of all our T5 Lists will be on our blog within the next couple weeks. However, we’re pretty busy right now with our daily routine—breakfast, apply sunscreen, relax on beach, relax on balcony, beer, enjoy view of bay, enjoy sunset, shower, apply bug spray, go to dinner, relax on balcony and go to bed.

I don’t think I could tire of the view from the balcony, of the crystal blue, multi-dimensional water and rocky, volcanic hills covered in greenery in the distance. The long tail boats crisscross on the bay in front, birds land on the rail of our balcony and serenade us while hummingbirds feast on the blossoming flowers surrounding our balcony. It is quiet a site.

We haven’t stayed out late enough yet to catch a fire show at Hippies, but we’ve watched the multicolored lights of the fishing boats dance across the bay at night from our balcony. I’m sure we’ll rally in the next couple nights and catch at least one fire show, maybe tonight.

We’re very happy we came back to Koh Phi Phi; it really is the definition of paradise in our minds.

Other Notes: The leak in our bathroom has subsided a bit. A guy came a few days ago, looked at the leak and told us he would be back “tomorrow”. We have yet to see him again...