Koh Chang

Two weeks on Koh Chang, after flitting all over Southeast Asia, about 28 different places altogether, so two weeks in one place has me (Kim) about one step up from comatose and I have to admit I did fight it initially. Never having been an avid bird watcher, I wondered how do they do it, siting in the forest or jungle all day, looking for birds, my only real source of bird watching info had come from reading a book several years ago, called Rare Birds and it was a comical farce albeit a good read nothing really about specifics on bird watching. Yet sitting on the hammock, yes sitting, it took me a few days actually the better part of a week to master "laying " on the hammock. Oh ya birds, I discovered that in fact it is quite entertaining and interesting watching the birds yet more enthrallling is listening to them. The birdsong  out our front door is so alive and varied and incredibly beautiful and constant that I find myself sitting listening for hours, like I would a new cd.

Being able to get into a book and read it from cover to cover in one day is a treat unto itself, you don't have to be in an exotic place to enjoy that.... But it helps.

To walk a white sand beach and float on your back in an ocean as warm as a bath, indulge in a Thai massage...daily..... Right out your front door, for 2full weeks.....there is even a food stand with fabulous coconut shakes, yes, served in the coconut that are so delicious and I've had so many I'm starting to look like a coconut......sounding hard to take, I have to admit after being so "on the road" it took me a bit to settle in, however I think I've done it. 

And that's been about it other than cleaning Lou at crib, yes I have to admit he has been cleaning me in Bananas ( a scrabble like game) 

Going to the market for groceries, we have a make shift kitchen and it's been nice to market shop and do meals on our own.

I forgot to mention the sun sets right in front of us, if we are at the beach and it is a bewitching hour,watching day turn to night, each night it is different, the sea is different, the clouds are formed differently or non existent on a certain day and the life around you varies, yet the sun shifts it's colour gently at first then starts falling and before I know it, it's a ball of fire sinking into the sea and I think to myself that was so mystical and in theory I know what just happened, yet I better make sure I watch again tomorrow, and the tomorrow after that.....

I know our adventure as we named it is coming to an end...this time next week we will be on a plane and heading home, I'm barely ready, but ready. Upon arrival home I look so forward to seeing my family and all my close friends, because I have missed the intimacies I share with you, what I will miss most here is having to share Lou with all of you again, I didn't think I would ever be able to be 24/7 as the saying goes, with anyone, and we have had brief bits on own, yet my most remarkable memories are just that here we were.....