BANGKOK, THAILAND

Thanks for all the get-well wishes, people! I'm feeling much better now, although it's taking awhile to fully regain my appetite. At any rate, it's not SARS or Bird Flu or Malaria or Dengue Fever, so stop worrying, mom! :-) Oh, and Chris is recovering too--he came down with a milder version of what I had (and about 10 other people we talked to on our street in Chiang Mai had contracted the same bug as well!).

Anyway, now we're back in beautiful Bangers, getting a lot of trip-planning business out of the way before heading to our next destination: Cambodia. We've managed to obtain visas for China and India with the help of a travel agency, and are now in the process of changing the dates on some of the airline tickets we've already purchased. (Fun stuff, I know.) On Tuesday we said goodbye to Kyle, who had to fly back to his home in Hawaii and his life as a surfer dude. It was a lot of fun traveling with him for a few weeks--I'll miss ya, man!