Off to Southeast Asia

Well Arwyn and I are back on the road. Since our last post we have spent some good time back home with our families. 

We left on Monday night at 8:30 pm after Mr. Rogers made us a hearty bar b que dinner. 

We flew on  a Turkish Airlines flight to Kuala Lampur via Istanbul, Turkey. It was a tiring 12 hour flight to Istanbul and due to a mix up, we had a 16 hour layover. We spoke to the airline and they gave us a really nice hotel and transfered us to and from the airport. 

We had a nice dinner, some strong tea, and bought some Turkish delight to take with us. 

From Istanbul to KL was another 10 hours and we saw the sunrise over the mountains in Asia, diverted course to avoid a country's airspace in the Middle East, and flew over India. 

It took us around 38 hours traveling to get to Kuala Lampur. We made it to our guest house in KL just after midnight and crashed. When I awoke  at 3:30 am I met Autumn and Thaddeus in the hallway as they were just arriving. 

We toured around KL the next day and I saw so many old landmarks from my last visit here a couple of years ago when my brother and sister lived here. Arwyn and I snuck out early and grabbed a Malaysian breakfast of roti and curry with the famous te tarrik, a strong sweet tea. 

We went to some markets, ate in a local food court and just walked around, spending time together. We then caught a 9:30 pm train to Thailand, duration 15 hours. Off the train the next day at around 2 pm the next day due to delays. Then we hiked across town to the bus station and caught a 5 hour bus to Krabi. I had arranged for a taxi to grab us off the bus in Krabi and from there it was only a 30 minute drive to our guest house. We really worked hard to get here. We all had our moments but I have to say that the one who handled the traveling stress the best was Thaddeus, who was perfectly content to sit on a train for 15 hours (his favorite part of the trip so far).