Travel update

Tomorrow we leave our haven of quiet and luxury in Phuket, where we have spent a gorgeous week doing absolutely nothing, to move on up the coast. We will be stopping for two nights in Khao Lak, where we are hoping to do our first dive since Ko Tao, then making out way either by train or bus to Bangkok, possibly stopping along the way and possibly not. (We need to be in BK long enough to sort out both Vietnam and China visas.) It is sunny and beautiful here during the day, most days, though ominously cloudy on some days and with truly spectacular storms in the evening / night: last night there was a storm right over the house, with sheets of lightning and (at a guess) an inch of rain per hour for three hours.