Ko Samet

So, I thought the easiest way to go through the photos would be to make a new blog post for each location we visited. The first place we went was and Island called Ko Samet, where we met up with Paul and Tia. Ko Samet is an island with beautiful views, bathwater-warm clear blue water, bumpy roads and lots of friendly locals. We spent our time here riding mopeds around to explore the island, playing in the water (a chicken fight left clayt with a sore neck) and eating about 4 times a day.


Paul and Tia were so happy to see us, they were speechless!


Here are our beachside bungalos. Most places in Thailand are pretty cheap, but usually don't have hot water or AC. It was so very very hot there that we didn't much miss the hot water, and usually were so tired at the end of the day that sleeping without AC wasn't much of an issue either.


We rode our mopeds to a nice place on the island to watch the sunset. We were the only people there, and it was peaceful and beautiful.


Like most places, there is a poverty problem. Here is one of the "houses" we saw while touring the island. Most people live in homes like pavillions - several feet off the ground, maybe one or 2 outside walls and no doors or room separation. This one however, was one of the most modest we saw. Its hard to even imagine people could live like this.


Here's a photo of clayt wowing the crowd at a local "Bob Marley" bar, singing karaoke - "My Way." They seemed to enjoy his theatrics, and now clayt can say he's sung karaoke in at least 3 different countries!